Progressing toward a cleaner future
Environmental disclosures
1. 2024 Impact Report, page 44
Environmental Protection Agency Green Power Fortune 500 partner: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Voya Financial a 2024 Green Power Partner. The recognition is based on 2023 information and no fee was paid for consideration. Green Power Partners agree to use green power that meets or exceeds Partnership requirements and agree to report on green power use annually. They must also use the Green Power Partner mark in a manner that is consistent with Partner mark use guidelines. The EPA automatically includes all partner organizations in the club that report they are using the qualifying amount of green power. Green Power Partner Minimum Requirements are based on the organization’s annual electricity usage. Eligible green power includes electricity generated from solar, wind, geothermal, biodiesel and certain forms of biomass, hydropower, fuel cells and generation/combined heat and power. Green power must be sourced from eligible U.S.-based generation facilities. The requirement can be met with any combination of green power products (i.e., utility product, RECs, or on-site generation). Partner purchases must be voluntary and incremental to the renewable electricity included in the standard electricity service. Requirements must be entirely met with power from “new” renewable facilities (i.e., installed within the last 15 years). Partners may join organization-wide (U.S. operations only), at the facility-level, or a logical aggregation of facilities less than organization-wide. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies; small and medium-sized businesses; local, state and federal governments; and colleges and universities.
Global Electronics Council EPEAT Purchaser Award: In April 2024, Voya Financial was recognized by the Global Electronics Council (GEC) with an EPEAT Purchaser Award. The recognition is based on 2023 information and no fee was paid for consideration. The awards are open to all organizations around the globe that purchase EPEAT-registered products; have, or are actively developing, an organizational purchasing policy for sustainable procurement, with specific guidelines for IT products and electronics; and specify or use contracts (if applicable) that require or prefer EPEAT registered products (Computers and Displays, Imaging Equipment, Mobile Phones, Network Equipment, Photovoltaic Modules and Inverters, Servers, and Televisions) inclusive of applicable service contracts. To be eligible, organizations must agree to be identified as an EPEAT Purchaser, be listed as such on the GEC website and also report purchasing data of EPEAT registered products to the GEC to allow for completion of Benefits Calculation. Using the EPEAT Benefits Calculators, GEC calculates the environmental and cost benefits of the full lifecycle of sustainable purchases made by each award winner.