Context
Perform Green signed up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals through our Sustainability Policy in February 2017 (2016/17). This included a commitment to SDG 13 ‘Climate Action’.
During 2017/18 we took radical action to reduce our environmental footprint including executing immediate gross reduction of our carbon footprint through:
- closing our offices and all becoming home workers
- travel policies that effectively all but eliminated private travel ie by car
- removing all paper and tangible consumables from our business
- selecting lowest carbon technology solutions available for our needs
This equated to at least 70% reduction in our carbon emissions.
Covid restrictions then enabled us to further reduce onsite meetings to a minimum, which we have been able to sustain beyond the lifting of those restrictions.
Our next step was to achieve net zero. We undertook a baseline of our emissions in 22/23 (see below) and commit to becoming carbon neutral in 2023/24
Baseline Year (2022/23) results
Perform Green have undertaken a baseline analysis of our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) carbon footprint (CO2e).
| GHG Scope Carbon Footprint | Carbon Emissions (Kg CO2e per unit) |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 emissions | 0 |
| Scope 2 emissions | 0 |
| Scope 3 emissions | |
| Transport | 1,554.0 |
| Working from Home | 2,484.4 |
| Food and Drink | 73.0 |
| Associates | 75.4 |
| Postage, Freight & Courier | 426.8 |
| Hotels | 114.4 |
| Procurement | 0 |
| Third Party | 0 |
| Total Carbon Emissions | 4726.0 |
| Perform Green’s Carbon footprint is equivalent to 4,726.0 kg of carbon dioxide, with the two main components being Transport (33%) and Working from home (53%). |
Scope
A scope meeting with the team, alongside 1:1 meetings, were undertaken to get a better idea of what should be included in Perform Green’s Carbon Footprint, and how this should be rationalised for future footprints. A set of rules were agreed, providing a basis to determine which activities should be included, and which should be excluded. The five rules are listed below.
- Goods or services that Perform Green has paid for are included in Perform Green’s carbon footprint.
- Activities are excluded if there is not the availability of reliable data for that activity.
- Activities that are small and that make a small impact on the overall carbon footprint, will be excluded.
- If a shareholder deems it important enough to be included, it can be included, and similarly excluded if deemed unimportant.
- Time Frame- Financial year to align with other reporting.