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Assess a project s value through its carbon footprint

Faced with this striking statistic, it is paramount that all actors within the Canadian construction industry join efforts to offer a cooperative response that is proportional to the magnitude of the challenge that climate change poses.

With 12% of emissions, buildings represent the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) in Canada in 2019, after the transportation and oil and gas sectors.2

Our strategy to fight climate change Our strategy is structured and based on science, which provides us with a clear path to significantly reduce our own emissions (Scopes 1 and 2) and to transform our value chain (Scope 3) as a means of contributing to a Net Zero world.

This climate change strategy helps us structure and prioritize our actions and focus on those that will have the most impact. Our strategy is based on three key goals:

→ Reduce our operations carbon footprint by reducing our GHG emissions.

→ Enable our partners and clients to transition to a low-carbon ecoDecarbonize our operations by reducing our own emissions.

→ Accelerate the transition by going beyond demand and increasing carbon sinks.

Our aim is to align ourselves with recommendations made by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The risks and opportunities related to decarbonizing our operations are addressed by our three goals and are supported by the concrete targets that we impose on ourselves.

→ In 2021, senior leadership discussed climate-related risks, opportunities, and initiatives on 13 occasions.

Following the UN s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13, take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts," Pomerleau strives to understand and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and to help our clients and industry do the same.

2 Government of Canada. (2021). Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks: Summary 2021.

GREEN VALUE CHAIN → CLIMATE CHANGE