Our ESG Progress 2024/25

As we approach the end of a productive year, we’re pleased to share the latest developments from across our ESG and People initiatives. The progress outlined below reflects the collective commitment of our people, our partners and our business in creating a positive and measurable impact.

Supporting Our People

In September 2025, we introduced enhanced maternity and paternity pay to better support colleagues through life’s key milestones. Developed through collaboration between our Sustainability and DEI teams, this policy strengthens our commitment to social sustainability and inclusion for parents across Paragon.

Driving Responsible Business Standards 

This year also marked several important milestones in our responsible business journey. We’re proud to have progressed from a Gold to a Platinum EcoVadis rating, placing Paragon within the top 1% of companies worldwide for sustainability performance. This milestone recognises the strength of our responsible business practices and the joint efforts of our ESG and Procurement teams.

We also retained our strong B rating from CDP, demonstrating continued transparency and progress in our climate reporting. Alongside this, our partnerships with Print Green, Cranfield University and JICMAIL enabled us to share knowledge, innovate and help drive higher sustainability standards across the communications and print sectors.

Progress on Our Path to Net Zero

We've continued to make strong progress on our Net Zero journey, achieving a 15% reduction in total carbon emissions compared with 2023/24, lowering our footprint to 141,006 tCO₂e. This is a 47% reduction from our 2019/20 baseline and demonstrates the strength of our long-term Carbon Net Zero strategy.

Our progress has been driven by practical changes across our operations, including significant reductions in electricity and gas use. Overall, we’ve reduced Scope 1 emissions by 61% and Scope 2 emissions by 57% since our baseline year.

Energy efficiency played a key role, with annual National-Grid-supplied energy use falling by 35% for natural gas and 25% for electricity this year. These improvements helped us reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 35%, keeping us firmly on track for a 90% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030.

We also took an important step forward in renewable energy investment. In August 2025, we completed our first UK solar PV installation at our Dagenham site. Once fully active, the system will generate around 1,600 MWh of clean electricity and deliver an estimated reduction of 290 tCO₂e per year.