Performance Data

Collecting corporate-wide footprint data is a strategic priority because it enables us to:

• Understand the collective impacts of IFC's business operations
• Inform the future strategy of the Footprint Program, including the establishment of corporate goals and priorities
• Learn as we address similar issues in our various country offices

Under our Footprint commitment, IFC monitors its operational performance in the following areas:

• Carbon emissions data, which includes staff air travel, electricity use, fuel used for vehicles and machinery, and natural gas and refrigerants used in our offices and local leased/rented space
• Environmental data, which includes water use, waste, recycling, and paper use
• Community outreach data, which includes volunteerism and financial donations

Improving Quality of Data

To measure the footprint of our global internal business operations, IFC has taken a stepped approach to overcome the challenge of having over 100 offices, ranging in size from 1 staff member to over 100 and spanning over 80 countries. The goal is to collect robust footprint data annually from all IFC offices and report on our global footprint.

IFC began with collecting annual footprint data for headquarters in FY02 – initially focusing on the DC office where half of our staff is located. Since FY08, our greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory for our global internal operations now includes data from all our country offices, progressing from a pilot in FY07 with half of our country offices. We also began collecting non-GHG data in FY08 from our country offices. Our goal is to report non-GHG performance data for our global operations in addition to our global GHG inventory by FY10.