Sustainability highlights 2024
Sustainability Highlights 2024 publication brings together Hoas’ sustainability efforts in 2024. Sustainability Highlights covers the new practices we have developed and presents concrete results on the progress and impacts of responsibility themes.
Sustainability Highlights in a nutshell
In 2024, we focused on the issues with the greatest impact and significance. We conducted a double materiality analysis, which provides us with a strong foundation to develop our strategy around the key sustainability topics identified as essential to us.
Below is a concise list of the actions we took in 2024. Read Sustainability Highlights 2024 to find out how we achieved all this!
Fewer emissions and more precise emission calculations
- We sourced all purchased energy emission-free
- We built new properties more sustainably than before
- We explored our potential to influence the carbon footprint of renovation projects
- We transitioned from cost-based emission calculations to material-based emission calculations
- Three of our key service procurement partners committed to a 30% emission reduction for services provided to Hoas by 2030
- We recognized that truly steering operations toward lower carbon emissions requires addressing the shortcomings in emission calculations
At the core of it all are the people
- We launched the Aware worksite
- We explored the world and expectations of today’s and future students
- As youth mental health became a national concern, we decided to focus more on Tenant Support
- Hoas janitors ensure safe and worry-free living in our properties
- We provided our tenants with opportunities to live more sustainably
- We received the Great Place to Work certification (along with some homework for the next year)
- We improved internal communication and collaboration through Hoas work experience program
New year, same Hoas
In addition to new initiatives, we continued our long-term efforts in familiar areas. You can explore these themes in more detail on our sustainability pages.
As we transition to CSRD-compliant sustainability reporting, we will no longer publish GRI-based sustainability reports from 2024 onward. In addition to the Sustainability Highlights publication, we will release data in March 2025. The published data will be comparable to the data from the 2023 sustainability report (available only in Finnish).