Understanding Our Impact
Earlier in the year we wrote about our journey to measure our office carbon impact and our science-based target commitment. We have committed to a reduction target in line with the Science based target initiative SME programme and commit to reduce our scope 1 & 2 emissions by 46% over a 2019 baseline, and to measure and reduce our scope 3 emissions. Through hot spot analysis and reduction recommendations we will set actions in motion to reduce our carbon emissions and report these annually. Our target was validated in September 2022
We are now publishing our first practice carbon reduction plan, published in 2023 and based on a 2019 baseline, it covers our practice footprint for the following years documenting the journey we have been on to understand our emissions, improve their accuracy and ultimately reduce them.
Progress against our near term target
We have measured all our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and we have also measured as many of our Scope 3 emissions as we can, where we have available data. Information on the scope 3 elements included within our assessment can be found in our report.
Breakdown of our 2022 carbon impact
We will publish an updated report annually, tracking our progress against the plan set out here, and updating our process as we learn more about our business and obtain more granular details on our impacts.
In addition to our science based target we have also joined the SME climate hub committing to set a long term target of becoming a net zero business by 2050. We are continuing to investigate ways in which we can more accurately report our scope 3 impacts and of course we hope to reach net zero much sooner. We know our practice emissions are small compared to the emissions from our projects, and in future years we are looking to also report the embodied and operational impact of the projects we are involved with.
We are now pleased to share our first impact report.
Understanding Our Impact
Earlier in the year we wrote about our journey to measure our office carbon impact and our science-based target commitment. We have committed to a reduction target in line with the Science based target initiative SME programme and commit to reduce our scope 1 & 2 emissions by 46% over a 2019 baseline, and to measure and reduce our scope 3 emissions. Through hot spot analysis and reduction recommendations we will set actions in motion to reduce our carbon emissions and report these annually. Our target was validated in September 2022
We are now publishing our first practice carbon reduction plan, published in 2023 and based on a 2019 baseline, it covers our practice footprint for the following years documenting the journey we have been on to understand our emissions, improve their accuracy and ultimately reduce them.
Progress against our near term target
We have measured all our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and we have also measured as many of our Scope 3 emissions as we can, where we have available data. Information on the scope 3 elements included within our assessment can be found in our report.
Breakdown of our 2022 carbon impact
We will publish an updated report annually, tracking our progress against the plan set out here, and updating our process as we learn more about our business and obtain more granular details on our impacts.
In addition to our science based target we have also joined the SME climate hub committing to set a long term target of becoming a net zero business by 2050. We are continuing to investigate ways in which we can more accurately report our scope 3 impacts and of course we hope to reach net zero much sooner. We know our practice emissions are small compared to the emissions from our projects, and in future years we are looking to also report the embodied and operational impact of the projects we are involved with.
We are now pleased to share our first impact report.