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How Discovery Turned Data Into
Every Target, Every Year

Discovery's Environmental Sustainability Specialist unpacks how a centralised data platform and disciplined target-setting helped the team hit every annual emissions reduction goal since FY2019: a 31% cut in absolute emissions by FY25, with more planned.

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41
Markets Served
31%
Emissions Reduction (FY25)
Every
Annual Target Met
FY2019
Base Year
The Client

A financial services pioneer with sustainability at its core

Discovery is a proudly South African-founded financial services organisation operating across healthcare, life insurance, short-term insurance, long-term savings, banking, and wellness markets in 41 countries. Since its founding in 1992, Discovery has been guided by a clear purpose: to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives.

Discovery supports the Paris Agreement's goals to limit global warming to well below 2°C, pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. The team was seeking to solve two challenges: managing emissions data across a large, multi-building footprint, and planning, implementing, and monitoring a science-based emissions target.

The Approach

Four moves that closed the gap between ambition and delivery

Data management platform
GCX's DASH platform gave Discovery a centralised approach to data collection and reporting from every location.
Data automation
An automation and account management system streamlined collection and reporting, improving accuracy and efficiency.
Stakeholder engagement
Monthly meetings tracked the previous month's emissions results and kept the team on pace for its rolling annual target.
Target module
A short-term target module gave up-to-date visibility and an intelligent end-of-year forecast, with room to adjust course.
The Results

What the partnership delivered

Every annual target met
Discovery has achieved its annual emissions reduction target every year since FY2019, its base year.
31% emissions reduction
A 31% reduction in absolute emissions by FY25, driven by an SBT-aligned target, with further reductions planned.
A granular data snapshot
An immediate, granular overview of sustainability data helps the team know exactly where to allocate resources.
Sharper target-setting
A deeper understanding of science-based target setting: what is ambitious, and what is appropriate.
"Our partnership with GCX has evolved tremendously. Over time they have enhanced their product offerings and capabilities, becoming an invaluable one-stop-shop for both knowledge and expertise. We now seamlessly tap into their advanced tools and insights, which has streamlined our processes and allowed us to make more informed decisions."
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Tshepi Molefe
Environmental Sustainability Specialist, Discovery
GCX Advisory

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