Increasing footprint accuracy and completeness
At Home is a leading home decor retailer with hundreds of locations and nearly 9,000 employees across the United States. With an average of 45,000 items in each store, At Home’s mission is to enable everyone to make their house a home. At Home views ESG as a fundamental business strategy that can be a brand differentiator. To execute their ESG Roadmap, At Home's initial focus for environmental sustainability has been on:
- Improving data collection accuracy and completeness.
- Strengthening internal control mechanisms.
These initiatives will enable At Home to enhance the integrity and reliability of their GHG data and gain a deeper understanding of their emissions. These insights will inform key reduction actions, like conducting store energy audits, and enable At Home to set their first internal carbon reduction targets.
Taking ownership of emissions data
The Persefoni platform enabled At Home to have visibility, actionable insights, and accountability over its carbon footprint. In taking ownership of their carbon data, At Home is able to create a more consistent and repeatable carbon accounting process, expand their footprint calculation to include material product emissions (scope 3 categories 1, 11, and 12), and free up time and resources to focus on operationalizing other strategic ESG initiatives across its value chain.
At Home selected Persefoni to improve data controls and create a single source of truth for carbon emission data. Achieving this means At Home can enhance reporting accuracy and consistency, provide enhanced disclosures and visibility to all stakeholders, and gain a deeper understanding of their emissions to set their first reduction targets.
Feeling empowered and confident
In partnering with Persefoni, At Home successfully brought their carbon accounting process in-house, enabling them to efficiently track and report on their sustainability goals and respond to investor and other stakeholder requests. By calculating an expanded footprint in 2023 that encompasses material product emissions and incorporating their 2022 emissions for comparison, the At Home team now feels empowered to further enhance data collection methods. This work positions them better to meet future regulatory requirements and has provided unparalleled insights into the products that have the most significant impacts on their carbon footprint.
Future collaboration with Persefoni will enable At Home to achieve increased granularity in their product-level emissions, providing valuable insights into actionable Scope 3 decarbonization efforts. Additionally, having all of their emissions data enables At Home to set their first carbon reduction target and expand their climate risk assessment.
Turning Emissions Data into Action
Excerpt from At Home’s 2023 ESG Report: “As part of the transition of migrating our data and calculations into the Persefoni platform, At Home was able to improve its data accuracy for prior years and restate its actual emissions. (...) Our ongoing commitment to sustainability and emissions reduction drives our actions as we strive to build a more sustainable future for At Home and the communities we serve. By expanding the scope of our GHG inventory and embracing a proactive approach to data collection, we will be in position to make informed decisions and drive impactful change.”
