By 2030, we want to cut our emissions by over half. By 2038, we aim to achieve Net Zero entirely. Like every business the environmental impact we cause can be felt, and we’re taking responsibility for that. We have a clear market-leading plan founded on a science-based approach to deliver on our promise.
Clyde & Co worked with Carbon Intelligence (now an Accenture company) to determine our baseline carbon footprint. The calendar year 2019 was taken as our baseline year, representing the last full year of normal operations before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our total footprint for 2019
Office energy use
Business travel and purchased goods and services
We’re taking a holistic view on how we can reduce our impact on the world. Our strategy uses evidence and research from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) which is a collaboration of international climate change groups that individually assess and approve companies’ ambitions.
We’re committed to operating our business in a responsible and sustainable manner and acting as an exemplar to the industry, demonstrating high ambition and high transparency and contributing to thought leadership.
Since establishing our baseline footprint and creating a roadmap to reduce our emissions, we have made good progress through a number of initiatives.
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). The SBTi defines and promotes best practice in science-based target setting, and independently assesses and approves companies’ targets. A greenhouse gas emissions target can be considered ‘science based’ if the emissions reductions it requires are in line with keeping the global temperature increase at or below 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial temperatures by mid-century (2050).
The SBTi have validated and approved our near-term reduction target of 80% in our scope 1 & scope 2 emissions and a 50% target reduction in our scope 3 emissions by 2030 as being in line with a 1.5 degrees trajectory.
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