Science-based carbon footprinting
Calculate, reduce, and offset your organisation’s environmental impact
Cost saving
Businesses can save an average of £23,000 per year by reducing their carbon emissions.
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Increase sales
63% of consumers are willing to pay more for products from companies with strong sustainability records.
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Recruit talent
78% of employees are more likely to work for a company that has a strong sustainability record.
CARBON FOOTPRINTING CONSULTANCY
Knowing your carbon footprint is the key first step in reducing your environmental impact
Because what gets measured gets improved, if you don’t know your carbon footprint it’s impossible to identify where your areas of biggest impacts lie. Simply having knowledge of this can lead to natural positive behavioural changes and, at a macro level, completely revolutionise the way you do business.
But carbon footprinting is resource and time intensive, requiring lots of data collection, analysis, and calculations. Having computed our own footprint, along with plenty of other businesses around the world, we can compute your carbon footprint, get it verified, and start you off on a journey of carbon reduction
Your first-choice partner
Commercial’s passion, positivity and practices all add up to being a first-choice partner. There’s no green washing here.
Intimate experience
We’ve been a carbon neutral business since 2006 and we’re going to be Net-Zero by 2028. Having already significantly reduced our own impact, we bring a personal experience to your project and a wealth of hard-won knowledge in carbon footprinting and carbon reduction.
Planet-first policies
Our sustainability focus is part of every project we undertake for our clients, from implementing IT systems to fit-out and furniture.
Carbon footprinting is not just another service we offer, it represents the ethos that runs throughout our entire business.
Cross-divisional consultancy
It’s not only our sustainability experts who’ll be involved with your carbon footprint calculations. We’ll bring in data scientists, architects, and commercial consultants – who will innately understand every moving part of your business. That way, we provide grounded and realistic recommendations.
Handling complexity
There’s no way around it – calculating your carbon footprint is a difficult exercise. With so many factors and dependencies, which can change on a daily basis, and so much data to collect – having an experienced partner on side is the only way to achieve a true and independent assessment.
Knowing where to start
Sustainability is complex and broad, with competing and complementary elements. It can be easy to get overwhelmed and daunting to begin.
Data collection
It’s difficult, time consuming, and resource intensive to gather all the information for the calculation – often requiring input from every department of your business. Knowing which data to collect, and which not to, is key to efficiency.
Scope 3 calculations
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG) measures carbon footprint in three scopes. Scope 3 is the most difficult to track and improve, but where most of the impacts lie. Expertise and experience are essential to operate in this field.
Staff engagement
Bringing your people onboard is crucial to successful carbon footprinting because, firstly, it’s their activities that make up a large portion of your impact and, secondly, they need to buy-in to the project to create a culture of sustainability.
Strategy
Developing a carbon reduction strategy can only be achieved with successful and verified carbon footprint calculations. Without first doing this, and doing it well, your business will not be able to prove its environmental impact and improvements.
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HOW WE WORK
Systematic & thorough
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Data collection
We methodically and carefully collect and analyse your scope 1, 2 and 3 data, setting targets for improvement.
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Action
Having identified quick wins and longer-term actions to reduce your impact, we’ll help to engage your staff in a plan of action.
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Accreditation
Third-party accreditation with planet mark will validate your footprint, and you’ll join an international community sharing best practice.
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Improvement
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of consumers are more likely to do business with an organisation which supports environmental issues.
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of businesses experienced a competitive advantage when they took action to reduce their carbon footprint.
INNOVATIONS & INSIGHTS
Better businesses contribute to a better world
As we all become more aware of our environmental impact, and businesses realise they play a greater role than most, developments in technology and policy are keeping us accountable and making it easier to improve.
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
The TCFD is a new force which mandates large companies disclose their ESG performance and climate-related financial risks and, from 2023, the same businesses will have to publish decarbonisation plans.
Science-Based Targets (SBTs)
SBTs are the verified targets you set, once you have calculated your carbon footprint. Without the calculation, you cannot play your part in the global transition to a Net-Zero business, or society.
Reporting regulations
The compliance landscape is becoming stricter and enforcing more mandates, including the reporting of Scope 3 emissions. Failure to do so will mean non-compliance, which could incur costs and prosecutions.
Market pressure
The growth of eco-ventures, eco-tendering, and growing demands from investors to disclose ESG performance, means that there will be a very real financial risk for companies which don’t pursue carbon footprinting and reduction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a carbon footprint?
It’s the measure of your environmental impact, or more specifically the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that you generate. Carbon footprints are typically expressed in terms of the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of time, such as tons of CO2 per year.
What are Scope 1 & 2 emissions?
Scope 1 includes your carbon emissions greenhouse gas from sources you own or control, like boilers and vehicles. Scope 2 emissions are indirect, like from the generation of purchased electricity.
Scope 1 & 2 emissions are the easiest to measure and reduce.
How is carbon footprint measured?
First you must measure the direct emissions associated with your direct operations, like energy consumption, and then your indirect emissions, like those generating in your supply chain.
What are Scope 3 emissions?
Scope 3 emissions are more difficult to measure and reduce, because they are indirect emissions that come from your essential operations and supply chain – like the products you use in your business, the use of products you sell, employee commuting, and business travel.
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