Thank you for joining Recruit Holdings Sustainability Update. First, we'll provide an update on the progress of Prosper Together for fiscal 2023 through a pre-recorded video. After that, around 4:20 P.M., we will begin the fireside chat with Senaha and Arai. Please wait until we start.
Hi, I'm Senaha, CEO and Director of Recruit Holdings. Thank you for joining our sustainability update. Today, I would like to share our 2023 progress for Prosper Together, the third pillar of our business strategy. Following that, I'll be joined by Jun Arai for a fireside chat and answering questions live. We have set five sustainability goals that we aim to achieve by 2030. We set these goals three years ago in 2021, and while some are progressing smoothly, others have been more challenging. Today, I'll be open and honest about both. First, let me talk about the E pillar, environment. We have met our short-term goal of reaching carbon neutrality throughout our business activities for three consecutive years since 2021. We are on track to achieve it again in 2023.
Our long-term goal is to achieve carbon neutrality of GHG emissions across our entire value chain. To this end, we're working with our partner companies to reduce Scope 3 emissions, which account for more than 95% of our company's GHG emissions. Through these activities, in 2023, we were recognized as one of the A List companies by CDP, an NGO that has one of the largest environmental databases in the world. This is the highest rating given to a company for its leadership in corporate disclosure, transparency, and performance on climate change. Next, let's talk about the S pillar, social. For many people around the world, having a job is one of the most important facets of life. However, approximately 40% of people could fall into poverty if they don't have income for three months.
To address this, we're committed to our goal of reducing the time it takes to get hired by half by 2030. We aim to do this by significantly speeding up the job matching process. For job seekers and employers, finding a job and hiring people still involves many processes and can be long and stressful. Our challenge is to make these processes as simple and fast as possible. To achieve this, we need to be able to measure the duration and to make it shorter. We have been diligently working on this through trial and error. In 2023, we focused on reducing the time to hire for employers and accelerated the advancement of our products. Indeed CEO Chris Hyams will provide more details on this initiative later.
Next, let's talk about the third goal we aim to achieve by 2030, helping 30 million people facing barriers in the labor market get hired. Some issues simply cannot be solved by improving the accuracy and efficiency of matching alone. In an ideal world, hiring should be determined by the skills and abilities required for the job. However, in reality, labor market barriers such as educational background, disabilities, and access to technology negatively impact job seekers when finding and keeping a job. We have been addressing the five common labor market barriers that exist across the world. This past fiscal year, we stepped up our efforts to remove barriers for refugees in response to growing global concern. As geopolitical tension rise, the number of people forced to leave their homelands has hit record highs.
Consequently, the number of people needing jobs increased as they sought to rebuild their lives in their new locations. Our HR technology business has partnered with international humanitarian organizations to hold job fairs across European countries for job seekers with refugee backgrounds. Our staffing business, especially our European subsidiaries with expertise in supporting job seekers who have migrated, has led efforts to promote hiring refugees to business clients and provided interpretation support during interviews for job seekers facing language barriers.