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1. Reduce business travel emissions by 75% from 2019’s baseline
2. Consider more stringent business travel policies, reduce air travel, flexible home-/remote-working options
3. Achieve 75% decrease in business mileage
4. All employee mileage including cash allowance and private cars to be in EVs by 2032.
5. Consider offering incentives through mileage reimbursement, revised company car schemes and hire car policy to achieve this.
6. Carbon credits to cover residual emissions
7. Engage with suppliers to set science-based targets, support them to decarbonise their operations. 85% of suppliers by spend to have set science based targets

1. Engage with suppliers to set science-based targets, support them to decarbonise their operations
2. Carbon credits strategy options being developed which could mitigate potential price rises and support the biodiversity agenda

Reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions at the rate consistent with that required to limit warming to 1.5ºC and neutralise the impact of any source of residual emissions that remains unfeasible to be eliminated by permanently removing an equivalent amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Reaching net-zero emissions requires neutralizing a company’s residual GHG emissions within it’s own value chain (supply chain, operations, products and services) with an equivalent amount of carbon removals. An effective neutralization strategy involves removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it for a long-enough period to fully neutralize the impact of any GHG that continues to be released into the atmosphere. e.g. tree planting, carbon capture and storage.

While reaching a balance between emissions and removals is the end goal of a net zero journey, companies should consider undertaking efforts to compensate unabated emissions in the transition to net-zero to contribute to the global transition to net-zero. These are measures that companies take to prevent, reduce or eliminate sources of GHG emissions outside their value chain e.g. participation in schemes to prevent de-forestation.

These are certificates purchased to confirm tonnage of carbon neutralisation / compensation and should be verified by credible schemes such as VCS or Gold Standard.

Carbon capture and storage or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia.

Scope one refers to all direct emissions from an organisation including gas boilers, fleet vehicles and air-conditioning gas leaks, while scope two includes all indirect emissions including heat, electricity and steam purchased and used.

All other indirect emissions from sources an organisation does not own or control, such as emissions associated with business travel, procurement, sales, transport, waste, and water.

Ensures that companies reduce their emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement and are externally validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).