Committed to Responsible, Positive Impacts

At Tyler, we refuse to compromise our integrity, and we are dedicated to excellence in everything we do for our
clients, our team members, the environment, and the communities in which we live and serve.

 

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Environmental Sustainability

Tyler is committed to conserving natural resources through implementing environmental initiatives and facilitating sustainable behavior. Our operational focus areas include energy efficiency, renewable energy procurement, water conservation, and waste minimization.

We work to continually improve our awareness of our impacts, even as we grow. Our Environmental Task Force, comprised of multiple facility managers representing our divisional headquarters, organizes its work across three foundational pillars addressing our operational focus areas:

Energy-Optimized-Operations

Energy-Optimized Operations

Ensuring energy efficient buildings and business operations through lighting, HVAC, insulation, power management, and renewable energy initiatives
Resource-Efficiency

Resource
Efficiency

Saving and recycling resources including water, single-use waste, paper, and sustainable procurement initiatives
 

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Green Planet
Initiatives

Promoting environmental awareness through training, signage, office green team engagement, behavioral challenge programs, and biodiversity-related initiatives

Emissions and Energy

Each year, Tyler Technologies measures our GHG emissions and energy consumption. We actively seek ways to reduce our carbon footprint, improve energy efficiency, and transition toward renewable energy resources where available. Our 2023 emissions (in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent [MT CO2e]) and energy usage (in megawatt-hours [MWh]) are summarized below:

  Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 3
Current Emission Sources Direct emissions from natural gas usage, other fuel consumption, and refrigerants Indirect emissions from purchased electricity Indirect emissions from purchased goods and services, business travel (air travel without radiative forcing), upstream leased assets, and other applicable Scope 3 categories
20231 2,090 mt C02e
16,623 MWh 		6,095 mt CO2e (market-based)
7,230 mt CO2e (location-based)
19,645 MWh 		Purchased goods and services: 32,874 mt CO2e
Capital goods: 3,463 mt CO2e
Fuel and energy-related activities: 2,558 mt CO2e
Upstream transportation and distribution: 168 mt CO2e
Waste generated in operations: 107 mt CO2e
Business travel: 11,089 mt CO2e2
Employee commuting and work from home: 7,830 mt CO2e
Upstream leased assets: 379 mt CO2e3
Total: 58,469 mt C02e

  Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 3
Historical
Emission Sources 		Direct emissions from natural gas used for heating buildings, diesel used in generators Indirect emissions from purchased electricity, estimated refrigerants, and estimated natural gas in leased sites Indirect emissions from purchased goods and services, fuel and energy-related activities (market-based), business travel (air travel without radiative forcing), employee commuting and work from home, upstream leased assets, and cloud emissions.
2022 1,154 mt C02e
9,131 MWh 		8,333 mt CO2e (market-based)
8,147 mt CO2e (location-based)
20,652 MWh 		Purchased goods and services: 76,588 mt CO2e
Fuel and energy-related activities: 2,821 mt CO2e
Business travel: 7,980 mt CO2e2
Employee commuting and work from home: 7,438 mt CO2e
Upstream leased assets: 568 mt CO2e4
Cloud: 85 mt C02e
Total: 95,482 mt C02e
20217 1,184 mt C02e
6,858 MWh 		5,864 mt CO2e (market-based)
6,520 mt CO2e (location-based)
18,673 MWh 		Business travel: 7,654 mt CO2e5
Upstream leased assets: 478 mt CO2e4
Cloud: 222 mt C02e
Total: 8,354 mt C02e
2020 1,735 mt CO2e
9,412 MWh 		5,891 mt CO2e (market-based)
5,727 mt CO2e (location-based)
15,641 MWh 		Business travel: 6,221 mt C02e6

Upstream leased assets: 279 mt C02e4
Cloud: 239 mt C02e
Total: 6,739 mt C02e

2019 1,428 mt CO2e
7,807 MWh 		9,810 mt CO2e (market-based)
9,217 mt CO2e (location-based)
23,357 MWh 		Not calculated

Tyler’s greenhouse gas inventory is conducted in accordance with the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD’s) GHG Protocol, including the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Revised Edition), the Scope 2 Guidance and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard.

Emissions Table Footnotes:

  1. Changes in GHG emissions and energy consumption compared to prior years are attributed to an improvement in data quality and emissions accounting processes, including updates to emissions factors.
  2. Travel emissions include air travel and hotel stay and were calculated using a vendor-provided calculation (without radiative forcing).
  3. Includes cloud-based emissions
  4. Excluding cloud emissions
  5. Emissions include air travel only
  6. Emissions calculated with radiative forcing
  7. Tyler completed the acquisition of NIC in mid-2021, Tyler’s largest acquisition to date. primary data for NIC was not available; therefore, our 2021 results with NIC are estimated using intensity metrics to reflect the acquisition.
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Tyler Technologies is invested in the management and reporting of e-waste, which is material to our industry and impacts the environment and our operations. The scope of the 2023 e-waste metrics has been expanded to account for an acquisition that was completed in 2021, leading to significant changes to e-waste numbers compared to previous years.

E-Waste 

E-Waste 2020 2021 2022 2023
Total E-Waste (lbs) 15,707 20,352 19,988 77,869
E-Waste Recycling 15,707 20,352 19,988 48,822
E-Waste Remarketed Not Calculated Not Calculated Not Calculated 29,047


Water and Waste

Tyler’s water and waste impacts are relatively small compared to many other sectors. In 2022, we updated our methodology to estimate and calculate water withdrawals and discharges. This resulted in significant changes to water discharges compared to what we reported in prior years. Due to the significance changes in 2022, we applied the same methodology for our historical data. In 2023, we continued to evaluate our water reporting calculation methodologies and data collection.

Our continuing transition to the public cloud introduces challenges in accounting for water withdrawals and discharges related to our data centers. Currently, water metrics are not available.

WATER 2020 2021 2022 2023
Water Withdrawals (gallons) 24,130,978 30,132,651 22,220,667 Not Calculated
Wastewater Discharges (gallons) 17,680,715 16,714,784 9,230,340 Not Calculated


Mixed solid waste metrics are not available for 2023. We will continue to assess reporting mixed solid waste metrics in the future.

Recycled waste increased in 2022 due to beginning a program to compost food waste at one of our larger sites. We expected this would also result in a similar decrease in waste to landfill at this site but could not reflect this in 2022 as we did not receive actual data for all waste to landfill and instead estimated the data.

WASTE 2020 2021 2022 2023
Mixed Solid Waste (lbs) 101,510 102,649 175,027 Not Calculated
Recycling 4,964 5,020 78,009 Not Calculated
Landfill 96,546 97,629 97,018 Not Calculated

These published environmental data may vary from previously reported values, due to adjustments for acquisitions, updated guidance and emissions factors, improved data collection, and/or data remediation. As Tyler is continually working to strengthen our data collection and quality, we will maintain transparency about our efforts and prepare for future third-party verification toward more accurate reporting.

Please note our currently published environmental data has not undergone third-party verification.

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Painting the vision of fully connected communities.

At Tyler, we imagine a world where all city, county, and regional government services are connected within a healthy digital infrastructure. Connecting data, processes, and people makes communities safer, smarter, and more responsive to the needs of residents.

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