Commitment to achieving Net Zero

Baseline Emissions Footprint

Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.

Baseline Year: 2020 
Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations. 
Our baseline year was chosen as 2020 as we attained significant growth in 2020  
Scope 1: Includes direct emissions, including those associated with the direct consumption of natural gas, heating oil, Petrol fuel as well as emissions associated with owned and leased vehicles and fugitive emissions. To meet our carbon reduction goals we agreed not hire an office and instead created an Organisation culture to work remotely.
Scope 2: Includes indirect emissions including those associated with the purchase and consumption of local electricity and distinct heating energy.
  
For Scope 1 and 2 calculations we followed the 2019 HM Government Environmental and Reporting Guidelines. We have also used the GHG Reporting Protocol – Corporate Standard and the UK Government’s Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2022.
 
Scope 3 (Categories 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) covers other indirect emissions such as business
travel, hotel stays, waste disposal, upstream emissions from purchased fuels and electricity. Emissions from employee’s teleworking have also been factored in including estimates from home energy consumption. 
 
For Scope 3 calculations we followed the guidance of GHG Reporting Protocol – Corporate Standard and have used the UK Government’s Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2022 for reporting. Different advised methods of calculations have been employed to calculate best these emissions including fuel method, distance method, spend method using proxy
techniques, industry averages.

Baseline Year Emissions: 2020

EMISSIONS TOTAL (tCO2e) 
Scope 1 
0.0
Scope 2
0.02
Scope 3 (Emissions measured include):
Category 4: Upstream transportation and distribution
Category 5: Waste generated in operations
Category 6: Business travel
Category 7: Employee commuting
Category 9: Downstream transportation and distribution
10.81
Total Emissions 
10.83

Current Emissions Reporting: 2022

Reporting Year: 2022

Scope One

0.0

Scope Two

0.79

Scope Three

9.85

Total Emissions: 10.64

EMISSIONS TOTAL (tCO2e) 
Scope 1 
0.0
Scope 2
0.79
Scope 3 (Emissions measured include):
Category 4: Upstream transportation and distribution
Category 5: Waste generated in operations
Category 6: Business travel
Category 7: Employee commuting
Category 9: Downstream transportation and distribution
9.85
Total Emissions 
10.64

Emissions Reduction Targets

In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets.

We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years further by 10 percent.

In 2022 our workforce increased, employees continued working remotely, due to increased operational workload and hiring of apprentices we leased a small office. For the year to date, our GHG emissions for Scope 3 have increased from last year due to an increase in number of employees, and hence increase in remote working and inclusion of office equipment and heating calculations in Scope 3. Our GHG emission for Scope 2 reduced from last year, this reduction was mainly driven by a shift to working remotely and reduce the business and regular office travel. We are committed to implementing a system to manage the data and quality of reporting. Since this is not yet fully in place, we have calculated our baseline and expected metrics using available online tools record best estimates across the required measurement categories. We expect our reporting to mature significantly over the coming years.

Carbon Reduction Projects

Completed Initiatives towards Carbon Reduction

  • Reduce the impacts of employee commuting for business travel – encourage our customers and employees to working remotely whenever possible.
  • Raised employee awareness to reduce energy waste and tips to save energy.
  • Raised employee awareness for transition to electric vehicles and adopting sustainable approaches while travelling – green ways of transport (cycling, encouraging carpooling), accommodation facilities (Choosing sustainable and eco-friendly hotels)
  • Reducing the business travel to minimum

On-going/Future initiatives towards Carbon Reduction

In the future we hope to implement further measures such as:

  • Continue to reduce the impacts of employee commuting for business travel – encourage our customers and employees to working remotely whenever possible.
  • Continue to transition to electric vehicles and adopting sustainable approaches while travelling green ways of transport (cycling, encouraging carpooling), accommodation facilities (Choosing sustainable and eco-friendly hotels)
  • We are focused on improving the ease and accuracy of our GHG emissions measurements, including changes to our internal business systems, driving greater transparency and granularity in monitoring our progress towards the carbon reduction.
  • Switching for renewable energy sources, employee grants to install solar panels by end of 2025.
  • Working towards ISO 14001 Environmental Management and ISO 50001 Energy Management certifications

Declaration and Sign Off

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

Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard[1] and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting[2].

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[3].

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).

Signed on behalf of the Supplier:

Neeraj Dad

Date:17/02/2023

[1] https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting

[3] https://ghgprotocol.org/standards/scope-3-standard