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At Nowy Styl, we aim to ensure our employees have extensive environmental knowledge and competence. Environmental training, especially in topics such as handling of chemical substances, selective waste collection, responding to emergency situations and improving energy and material efficiency, is an integral part of our training programmes for all employees, implemented at various management levels. In 2024/2025 we plan to conduct environmental training targeted at production workers, as part of the Lean programme. In addition to our training, we also work to build environmental knowledge and awareness through infor- mation campaigns on our internal company website, mailing campaigns targeted at all employees and poster campaigns. In this way, we disseminate information about reducing our CO 2 emissions, energy saving methods, protecting biodiversity and other aspects. Environmental training GRI 305-1 GRI 305-3 Since 2019, Nowy Styl has been using the CO 2 Performance Ladder – the Nether- lands system for supporting companies with sustainable development in the area of carbon footprint and CO 2 emissions reduction.As part of that systemwe collect data, set goals and have a programme in place to ensure they are achieved, and supervision audits are performed by an external certification body annually to verify if these goals are met. The CO 2 Performance Ladder certification includes determining the carbon footprint for Nowy Styl Sp. z o.o. 6.2 Our carbon footprint in Poland, Nowy Styl Deutschland GmbH in Germany and Nowy Styl Nederland B.V. in the Netherlands. The management and coordination of activities related to the CO 2 Performance Ladder certification and calculating our carbon footprint is handled by Nowy Styl international team of experts. The costs associated with the ongoingmaintenance and improvement of the carbon footprint management system have a specific budget in the organization. Our calculations and efforts focus on direct and indirect emissions of our organisation, using the GHG Protocol methodology - in Scopes 1 and 2. Scope 1 - direct emissions from fuel consumption at sources owned or controlled by the organisation: 10% reduction in 2025 compared to 2018. Scope 2 - indirect emissions coming mainly from the consumption of electricity produced in external installa- tions: 50% reduction by 2025 compared to 2018. In addition, we also add data on emissions from our business air travel to the overall CO 2 emissions figures. Our previous goal set in the management systemwas to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30% by 2025 compared to 2018. Many initiatives completed in 2022-2023 produced significant results in this area. 2023 was a record year for Nowy Styl on the company’s path to decarbonisa- tion of its operations. We reduced our CO 2 emission index by as much as 50% compared to 2018! We have therefore decided to raise our CO 2 emissions reduction target by 2025 from 30% to 50% compared to 2018 (the target refers to relative emissions associated with annual turnover defined as revenue from the sale of products and services excluding other operating and financial revenue). 127