Safaricom 2023 Sustainable Business Report

57 OUR BUSINESS OUR STAKEHOLDERS KPI SUMMARY PATHWAY TO A PURPOSE-LED TECHNOLOGY COMPANY OUR MATERIAL TOPICS FUTURE FOCUS • Develop a planet strategy for Safaricom. • Develop a take-back programme for e-waste and network waste. • Facilitate and expand solar deployment. • Reduce power-related outages by 20% y-o-y. • Work with suppliers to decarbonise their operations. • Onboard permanent service provider for network equipment waste disposal. • Improve our digital maturity index from 3 to 4 by automating our ESG/ sustainability data collation and reports, leveraging a central repository for sustainability and environment data/info, addressing carbon data inconsistency and automating the EIA process. • Improve our organisational GHG reporting in line with ISO 14064. • Shift our CDP score from ‘B’ to ‘A’. • Reach three million trees in our tree growing programme. • Review and update our carbon reduction targets aligned to the Science Based Targets of keeping the average global temperature rise below 2.0 ° C. AIR & SEA EMISSIONS (Tonnes.km) FY20 FY22 FY21 FY23 Air Sea FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 Air 7 441 005 3 067 357 2 150 472 1 637 104 Sea 25 249 342 47 096 057 23 282 241 21 149 357 AIR & SEA EMISSIONS (kgCO 2 e) FY20 FY22 FY21 FY23 Air Sea FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 Air 8 432 213 3 476 204 2 436 605 1 780 705 Sea 454 526 833 310 413 989 374 434