Our People

JT Sustainability

2020, The Year Of Change

Tom Noel

Director of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, Company Secretary

2020 was the year JT shifted from delivering separate strands of activity on sustainability, to formalising a robust and ambitious 10-year strategy; addressing the increasing environmental pressures and social issues of our time, and most notably, where and how JT can really make a difference.

Organisationally, sustainability has captured the hearts and minds of our people and as we embrace this, we continue to embed sustainability into our company’s DNA. We’ve worked closely with stakeholders and the Carbon Trust to benchmark and baseline our carbon emissions and understand where we can make changes that benefit our communities. All of which helped us to create an overall blueprint for our Sustainability Strategy which provides a framework for the future and benchmarks well against some of the world’s leading companies.

Our Ambitions

Our Strategy focuses on two main ambitions, centred around Planet and People - reducing our environmental impact, and promoting key social priorities, all underpinned by Transparent Reporting and Governance.

Planet

Power Consumption & Energy Efficiencies

• Use sustainably sourced energy • Re-purpose our property estate • Reduce the impact of refrigerants

Travel – to work and at work

• Minimise our local and international business travel • Offer employees an alternative commute scheme • Offset essential travel with a “Gold standard verified” carbon offset scheme “Rwanda

Borehole Clean Drinking Water”

Circular Business Model

• Reduce plastic in our stores • Stock products with eco-friendly packaging • Re-purpose legacy electrical products

People

Community

• Support local charities • Support vulnerable groups and communities, eliminating the digital divide • Raise awareness and support of Mental Health

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Workforce diversity and inclusion • Social inclusion, sustainability, and accountability

Safety & Security

• Network & Cybersecurity, Personal Safety,

Privacy & Data protection

What we have done so far

Prior to the publication of our Strategy in 2021, the JT team had already been making big strides towards our objectives. Some examples of which are below.

Planet

Power Consumption & Energy Efficiencies

• Installed PIR sensors • Placed solar film on windows • Installed time clocks on all water boilers

Travel – to work & at work

• Minimise our local and international business travel • Offer employees an alternative commute scheme • Offset essential travel with a “Gold standard verified” carbon offset scheme “Rwanda

Borehole Clean Drinking Water”

Circular Business Model

• Refurbished used phones for our people • Paper bags in store • Provided recycling bins in all our offices • Removed all plastic cups from all our offices • Helped to repurpose Avaya equipment by installing it for free for a local charity

People

Community

• Helped to raise over £30,000 for Macmillan

Jersey in 2020 • Support vulnerable groups and communities, eliminating the digital divide • Supported training of our Mental Health First Aiders

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Celebrated International Women’s Day • Conducted Neurodiversity training • JT was Jersey’s first large-scale commercial organisation to become a Living Wage Employer

Safety & Security

• Launched JT Total Wi-Fi • Provided FREE Cybersecurity assessments for our customers • Provided Managed firewalls and DDoS