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Sustainability
We take pride in the numerous ways our company contributes positively to the world, and we prioritize health and education in all our endeavors.
Environmental, Social and Governance
In 2021, Cytel conducted an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) materiality exercise, helping us identify and prioritize the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) most aligned with our purpose, impacts, and stakeholder interests.
We laid the foundation for a formalized ESG strategy in our 2022 Sustainability Report, introducing key initiatives and setting actionable goals across areas like diversity, emissions reduction, and supply chain sustainability. Over the past years, we have built on these objectives, making significant progress in embedding sustainability into our business practices.
Our 2023 Sustainability Report reflects this evolution. We have strengthened our commitment by achieving key milestones such as improving emissions tracking, reducing office space to lower our environmental footprint, and expanding our efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion. With ambitious goals like aligning our emissions reductions with Science-Based Targets – approved and validated by SBTi – and enhancing supply chain sustainability, this report highlights our progress and reiterates our commitment to creating a lasting, positive impact.
To learn more about our ongoing efforts and future goals, download our 2023 Sustainability Report.
Download ESG reportEcovadis Sustainability Rating
In 2024, Cytel was awarded a Bronze Badge by EcoVadis after a comprehensive evaluation of our business sustainability practices, positioning us in the top 35% of rated companies – ranking in the 82nd percentile. The assessment includes 21 criteria across 4 core themes: environment, ethics, labor & human rights, and sustainable procurement. As a reflection of our ESG commitment and strategy to continuously improve across these focal areas, our EcoVadis score rose from 28 to 65 over the past 3 years. We will continue striving to improve our score by setting and measuring against bold sustainability targets.
Cybervadis Certified
Cytel is proud to be recognized with the CyberVadis certification, reflecting our corporate commitment to robust cybersecurity practices and data protection. This certification underscores our dedication to maintaining the highest standards of information security, ensuring our clients’ data is handled with integrity, confidentiality, and care.
Supplier Code of Conduct
As outlined in our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy, Cytel is committed to ethical, fair, and sustainable business practices, and we expect the same from the suppliers we do business with. In the Supplier Code of Conduct we have highlighted certain legal, ethical and sustainability business requirements that are of particular importance to us.
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Environmental Policy
While Cytel is a software and services company without product manufacturing, we are dedicated to managing the environmental impact of our global operations by managing and minimizing environmental consumption, waste and emissions.
Read our Environmental PolicyCommunity Initiatives
Our corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are chosen to support belief in the power of health and education. Helping others within the field and supporting future generations is integral to our purpose and culture.
Fly High
Our award-winning program supports families to escape the poverty trap through educational opportunities. Since 2017, our successful initiative has helped more than 2400 students throughout India.
Cye-Fit Challenge
We believe today’s children will face automatic disadvantages if they are not given the opportunity to learn coding at a young age. Our educational challenge encourages members of the Cytel team to volunteer in local schools promoting engaging activities that bring computer science and technological education to a wider cross-section of students.
Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger
For nearly two decades, the Cytel team has participated in Boston’s annual Walk for Hunger. It’s estimated that up to 60,000 Mass Bay children go without food on a regular basis. Supporting a cause to bridge that gap and give them access to this basic human right will also help them concentrate and flourish in school.
School supplies
Just as children require enough sustenance to be able to concentrate in class, providing essential school supplies can have an equally positive effect on their education. For nearly a decade, Cytel has partnered with local boys’ and girls’ clubs in Massachusetts, US, to provide low-income school children with backpacks and school supplies.
Drum Circle
The emotional stresses of financial, environmental, and health-related hardships have led to behavioral issues for many children in the Budhwar-peth Area of Pune. Cytel partnered with the Swadhar Institute to organize 12 drum circles for children at MOHOR, helping them channel their emotions into a creative group exercise, cultivating greater concentration and teamwork.
Project Hygiene Harmony
Cytel sponsored the construction of sanitation facilities for a girls’ school in the vicinity of Pune, India.
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