Environment
Develop and sell products and services that help save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Efficient Water Practices
We recognize the importance of water conservation and the benefits it provides to business continuity, our associates and the communities in which we operate. In fiscal 2024, we implemented several water-related activities at our Guadalupe and Santa Rosa Production Facilities in Mexico to help us use water more efficiently.
Acuity Brands Lighting
Our mission at Acuity Brands Lighting is to provide sustainable, inspiring, and intelligent lighting solutions that enrich communities where people live, learn, work and play. In fiscal 2024, we continued to deliver on our strategy which is to increase product vitality, elevate service levels, use technology to improve and differentiate both our products and our services, and drive productivity.
As the world transforms from analog to digital, our mission at Acuity Intelligent Spaces is to make spaces smarter, safer and greener through our strategy of connecting the edge to the cloud. In fiscal 2024, we delivered on our mission. Our teams continued to grow our software and building controls business by creating innovative, integrated solutions that are powered by disruptive technologies.
Acuity Intelligent Spaces
100M Metric Tons of Carbon Avoidance
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Predicted Grid Emission Factor
The sum of years 2020–2030 is projected to be 113 million metric tons of CO avoidance
MMT
>100
89
85
80
76
69
63
55
41
18
2030
2029
2028
2027
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
ACTUAL
PROJECTED
We aim to empower our customers to reduce their carbon footprint by 100 million metric tons by fiscal 2030. This goal is based on our projected sales of LED luminaires, lighting controls, and building and refrigeration controls replacing older technologies in existing buildings and on driving innovation and performance across our Company. Our estimated progress to date is shown to the right.
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
95
EarthLIGHT Handprint Report Methodology
The estimated cumulative impact of Acuity’s contribution to reducing carbon emissions by 2030 is shown in this table. Future year contributions diminish due to the Grid Emission Factor, increasing efficiency of buildings undergoing renovation, and the expected leveling-off of LED efficiency.
Metric
Tons
2MMT
4MMT
6MMT
8MMT
10MMT
12MMT
2
14MMT
NET
ZERO
Helping customers reduce their carbon footprint is one way that we believe we make a measurable impact on minimizing climate change.
While our corporate carbon footprint assesses the environmental impact of our products and processes, we also estimate the environmental benefits of removing older, less-efficient technology from a building, which we refer to as a carbon ‘handprint.’ Details of how we calculate carbon avoidance can be found in our white paper entitled, “EarthLIGHT Handprint Report Methodology".
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2024
EarthLIGHT
Report
Helping customers reduce their carbon footprint is one way that we believe we make a measurable impact on minimizing climate change.
While our corporate carbon footprint assesses the environmental impact of our products and processes, we also estimate the environmental benefits of removing older, less-efficient technology from a building, which we refer to as a carbon ‘handprint.’ Details of how we calculate carbon avoidance can be found in our white paper entitled, “EarthLIGHT Handprint Report Methodology."
EarthLIGHT Handprint Report Methodology
Our goal is to enable our customers to avoid 100 millions metric tons of carbon emissions by fiscal 2030. This goal is based on our projected sales of LED luminaires, lighting controls, and building and refrigeration controls replacing older technologies in existing buildings and on driving innovation and performance across our Company.
The estimated cumulative impact of Acuity’s contribution to reducing carbon emissions by 2030 is shown in this table. Future year contributions diminish due to the Grid Emission Factor, increasing efficiency of buildings undergoing renovation, and the expected leveling-off of LED efficiency.
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2030
2029
2028
2027
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
ACTUAL
PROJECTED
Metric
Tons
2MMT
4MMT
6MMT
8MMT
10MMT
12MMT
14MMT
The sum of years 2020–2030 is projected to be 113 million metric tons of CO₂ avoidance
MMT
100M Metric Tons of Carbon Avoidance
>100
95
89
85
80
76
69
63
55
41
18
