Carbon Reduction Plan
Supplier name: Netpremacy Global Services
Publication date: 14/08/2024
We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint
At Netpremacy, we push ourselves to do more for the world we live in. To date, we have ensured that;
We have optimised office spaces
We decrease the office temperature during non-working hours
We minimise outdoor lighting
Lights and equipment are switched off when areas are not in use through sensors
Office and electronic waste is recycled to prevent going to landfill
We offer a flexible working policy and remote customer offerings to avoid unnecessary travel
Our building operates on 100% renewable energy only
Our baseline emissions Footprint:
Baseline emissions are a record of the GHGs 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. The Reporting Year is the calendar year 2023, which will act as the Baseline Year moving forward.
| Scope | Scope Category / Definition | Description | Emissions (tCO2e) Reporting year (FY23) |
Emissions (tCO2e) Baseline year (2023) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources | Facilities & vehicles | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling | Purchased energy | 9.75 | 9.75 |
| 3 (i) | Upstream transportation & distribution | Business requires no material upstream transportation and distribution goods | 0 | 0 |
| 3 (ii) | Waste generated in operations | Waste from offices and electronic waste | 0.02502 | 0.02502 |
| 3 (iii) | Business travel | Travel for business purposes | 3.189369679 | 3.189369679 |
| 3 (iiii) | Employee commuting | Travel by employees to and from their places of work | 0.1279989399 | 0.1279989399 |
| 3 (iiiii) | Downstream transportation & distribution | Business requires no material downstream transportation and distribution goods | 0 | 0 |
| Total emissions | 13.0923886189 | 13.0923886189 |
Current Emissions Reporting:
Scope 1 – Owned emissions (Facilities, Vehicles)
We do not own any facilities. With regards to vehicles, the company does not own, or use, any vehicles at this point.
Scope 2 – Indirect emissions (Energy)
We are accountable for the energy usage in our head office. The combined emissions for electricity in this office over our Fiscal Year 2023 was 9,748.89 Co2 kg.
Scope 3 – Supply chain emissions
a. Upstream Transportation & distribution
We do not own the transportation or distribution of any goods sold. Most of our services are software and cloud infrastructure related and therefore have no requirement for transport. However, we do also work with Chrome suppliers to service our clients.
b. Waste Generated in Operations
As a remote-first business, our employees work from a variety of locations, meaning that we are unable to calculate the general waste from each home location. On that basis, we’ve used the waste from our head office location in this section.
On average our Leeds head office has 43 desk days used per week. The average employee will generate 2kg waste per day. We don’t have much commercial waste with the exception of boxes and packaging from deliveries.
We have recycling systems in place in our office building, of which the company occupies 5.15%. We have a report for 2023 that shows 85.59% of waste was recycled, and 14.42% of waste was turned into RDF (refuse-derived fuel); nothing goes to landfill.
Wellington Place, the commercial office space in which our head office is located, is committed to ensuring that none of the waste generated goes directly to landfill. All office waste is collected and sent to a Materials Recovery Facility for sorting. In the end, every single piece of our waste is either composted or recycled. The recycled materials are then sold onto manufacturers as raw materials so that new recycled products can be made.
| Location |
Office waste per year |
Recycled | RDF (Refuse-derived fuel) | Presumed Landfill | Total Emissions (CO2e(kg)) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emission Factor | 0.021 | 0.021 | 0.520 | ||
| Leeds | 1,125kg | 85.59% | 14.42% | 0% |
23.6273625 |
| Total | 23.63 |
Aside from general waste, we also produce electronic waste due to the requirement for sufficient desk setups for our employees. We dispose of electronic waste in two ways; repurposing (through repair and resale) and recycling via a local recycling partner.
| Item |
Total items disposed |
Re-used |
Recycled | Destroyed |
Average Weight (kg) |
Total Emissions (CO2e(kg)) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emission Factor | 0 | 0.021 | 0.008 | |||
| Laptop | 33 | 6 | 27 | 0 |
1.5 | 1.1655 |
| Chromebox | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.82 | 0.05166 |
| Phone | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.02205 |
| Monitor | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0.147 |
| Printer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Total | 1.39 |
Netpremacy also disposed of a number of peripherals, including 14 keyboards, 4 headsets and 15 mice. 4 keyboards and 4 mice were repaired and reused, the rest was recycled. Due to the varying brands and models involved, it was not possible to determine an average weight, and thus the emissions associated with their reuse and recycling were not possible to calculate.
Our total waste emissions were 25.02 Co2e(kg)
c. Business Travel
Our employees use two main modes of transport for business travel (train and car). We have used internal data from our expenses platform to calculate our total business travel emissions. This is inclusive of travel to clients and prospects, to our partners, and to the office in the case of remote workers, as well as travel for internal company events that we held in Edinburgh and Manchester in 2023. The emissions for all business travel were 3189.369679 Co2e(kg).
d. Employee Commuting
For our office-based employees, of which we have 43, we require one in-office day a week. This means we have 43 employees commuting to the office per week. We have asked our employees to complete a survey of how they travel for work and the distance. The total emissions for employee commuting have been calculated to be 127.9989399 Co2e(kg).
e. Downstream transportation and distribution
We do not own the transportation or distribution of any goods sold. Most of our services are software and cloud infrastructure related and therefore have no requirement for transport. However, we do also work with Chrome suppliers to service our clients.
This resulted in total estimated emissions of 3,317.37 Co2e(kg).
Our goals
We have made strides in reporting on waste and transport emissions, which we feel are imperative to set realistic targets.
We want to gather data on more scope 3 emissions, such as company purchases and the impact of our project work via Google.
We expect to see reductions in our scope 2 and 3 emissions by working more closely with our building management. We will be looking to reduce our overall energy consumption by further minimising usage of lights and equipment outside of working hours. We also aim to increase the percentage of repurposed laptops we recycle by applying ChromeOS Flex, as well as switch to highly sustainable devices where a replacement is required.
Whilst we will continue to leverage our systems to allow people to collaborate remotely, we acknowledge we are unable to eradicate travel entirely.
Declaration and Sign Off
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
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.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors.