Westcon-Comstor gets climate B rating from CDP

The distie ranks high in slashing Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions

Westcon-Comstor has been awarded a B rating from climate body Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), as the company keeps working towards achieving net zero by 2050.

The assessment, awarding scores from A to D minus, focused on different factors, such as the company’s awareness of environmental issues, its management methods, and its progress towards environmental stewardship.

This B rating signifies that Westcon-Comstor has been recognised by the non-profit as a company that tackles the environmental impacts of its business and ensures good environmental management.

The distributor ranked highly on industry collaboration and public policy engagement, environmental policies, and both Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, which include pollutant releases from sources the organisation causes directly, and emissions from where the firm purchases its energy.

The distributor says it is still working with partners and vendors to reduce its Scope 3 emissions, those not directly controlled by a company but part of its wider value chain.

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. It holds the world’s largest dataset of self-reported environmental data and last year alone helped nearly 25,000 companies, from enterprises to SMBs, to disclose and manage their impact on the environment.

This is the first time Westcon-Comstor has independently disclosed its sustainability data to CDP, as the firm previously contributed to a yearly submission by Datatec, its South African parent company.

“As a business we believe openness and transparency should be at the core of our sustainability strategy, which is why we chose to disclose our data to CDP independently for the first time,” said Kevin Brzezinski, chief sustainability officer at Westcon-Comstor.

“We are pleased with our initial B rating and will strive to make further improvements.”

The company embarked on its sustainability journey in 2022 with the appointment of Mark McLardie as its head of ESG and became “the first major global distributor with net-zero targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)” in 2023.

Last year, the distie achieved its 100 per cent renewable electricity milestone in the UK, as well as its full transition to renewables in the UK, six years before its 2030 deadline.

The company also completed the same feat in Australia and New Zealand.

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