Singapore telecommunications agency StarHub has appointed Jaclyn Yeo as vp (VP) of company sustainability.
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Yeo joins the corporate after 4 years with DBS, the place she led the financial institution’s sustainability reporting efforts.
As VP of sustainability, Yeo will lead StarHub’s ambition to realize internet zero emissions by 2050, and to chop Scope 1 and 2 emissions by half from 2021 ranges by 2030.
The corporate’s decarbonisation technique contains rising using renewable power to 30 per cent by 2030, changing legacy IT networks with cloud methods, and switching its transport fleet to electrical automobiles. StarHub’s near- and long-term decarbonisation targets have been authorised in November by the Science Based mostly Targets initiative, which validates internet zero plans in step with local weather science.
StarHub launched sustainability-linked key efficiency indicators for its senior administration from January onwards to incentivise firm executives to satisfy targets for renewables procurement and emissions discount. StarHub opinions its sustainability targets each 5 years.
Yeo joins an organization named “the world’s most sustainable telco” by Corporate Knights journal 4 months after the departure of Veronica Lai, who was StarHub’s chief company and sustainability officer. Lai, who was additionally StarHub’s normal counsel, is a board member of United Nations International Compact Community Singapore and was appointed VP in July.
Earlier than becoming a member of DBS, Yeo was analysis supervisor at skilled providers agency Marsh McLennan, the place she managed thought management publications on rising dangers equivalent to local weather change.
