sustainability

This is a report outlining our current baseline sustainability profile

Scope 1 – Owned emissions (Facilities, Vehicles)

  • We do not own any facilities

  • With regards to vehicles, the company does not own, or use, any vehicles at this point.

Scope 2 – Indirect emissions (Energy)

  • We are not accountable for energy as we do not occupy any office space

Scope 3 – Supply chain emissions

  • Purchased goods & services

  • We have 4 main types of suppliers;

    • Services, such as contractors, agencies and advisors. 

    • Systems (technology), we extensively use Google cloud technology and have no internally hosted systems.

Transportation & distribution

  • We do not own the transportation or distribution of any goods sold. Most of our services are software and cloud infrastructure related and therefore have no requirement for transport. However, we do also work with Chrome suppliers to service our clients. Whilst we don’t have control over those suppliers processes, our roadmap includes an extension of procurement processes to include environmental and social impact. 

General Waste

  • As a remote-first business, our employees work from a variety of locations, meaning that we are unable to calculate the general waste from each home location.

  • Aside from general waste, we also produce electronic waste due to the requirement for sufficient desk setups for our employees. For we dispose of electronic waste in two ways; repurposing (reusing internally or donating to local facilities charities, schools, etc.), and recycling.

Business Travel

  • Our employees use three main modes of transport for business travel (train, plane, and car). We do not currently do enough business travel to calculate a meaningful emissions figure.

Commuting

  • Our employees work on a remote-first contract and therefore have no requirement to commute, as we do not have any offices.

Our goals

  • We feel that we do not yet have sufficient data to provide realistic and achievable goals for our Net Zero target. However, we intend to analyse data as we grow and are able to capture meaningful data, at which point we will decide on our targets and provide updates in subsequent reports each year thereafter.

The Journey to Net Zero

What’s next

Scope 1

  • Whilst we don’t have ownership over any of our premises we’re committed to partnering with our providers to improve their impact

Scope 2

  • We will be taking two approaches for reducing our emissions from energy consumption; 

    • Recommending our employees working remotely consider renewable energy suppliers

    • Reducing overall energy consumption

Scope 3

  • Purchased goods & services

    • We continually and actively assess our procurement process, this includes social and environmental reviews and will be used to make decisions on suppliers of goods and services. We are committed to assessing our current service providers and hardware suppliers (laptops, monitors, mobile phones), as well as all suppliers on an ongoing basis.

General Waste

  • Whilst general waste is not our largest source of emissions, it is also a challenge to reduce as materials used by our employees will continually depreciate. However, we aim to increase the percentage of repurposed laptops recycled by applying Chrome Flex OS where applicable and donating these to local schools. 

Business Travel

  • Whilst we will continue to leverage our systems to allow people to collaborate remotely, we acknowledge we are unable to eradicate travel entirely, and we have implemented policies to manage the use of business travel with the aim of cutting out all internal flights and prioritising the use of train travel for small to medium length journeys. 

  • We understand that this approach does still create carbon emissions, and therefore look to offset all business travel using an appropriate channel. In the longer term, we will consider the use of electric vehicles for business travel.

Commuting

  • We are committed to continuing our remote-first policy to ensure no unnecessary commuting. Because of this, we plan to continue our Carbon Offset Commutes policy creating innovative ways of engaging our people in its use. 

  • In the longer term, we plan on using the data collected from our commute submissions to create data-driven incentives to encourage the use of electric vehicles and public transport over the use of higher-emission vehicles.

Declaration and sign off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standards for Carbon Reduction Plans.

Emissions, where reported, have been recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting. 

Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard. 

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors.