The following report formally documents our organisation’s environmental impact and the steps we are taking to reduce this impact as much as possible, as soon as possible.
Within our reporting period Pawprint had 19 FTE (Full Time Equivalent) employees, making our average footprint per employee:
That’s the same as driving from Edinburgh to London five times in an average car…
Before going any further, we want to emphasise that the past year wasn’t a normal one for Pawprint (or the world); we suspect some areas of our emissions are a little lower than ‘normal’. But we’re determined to do everything we can to keep our environmental impact low, even as we return to post-pandemic norms.
You might be thinking, ‘Why are their Scope 3 emissions so big?’. It’s quite normal actually.
Scope 3 covers a company’s indirect emissions; stuff outside of our organisation and along our supply chain. As you can imagine, that list is usually pretty long.
SMEs aren’t currently required to report their Scope 3 emissions, but since it makes up the majority of our total footprint, we know it has to be included in our report and reduction targets. We recommend other organisations do the same.
To calculate our emissions, Pawprint used the services of Compare Your Footprint. Their calculations adhere to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard.
We're committed to Real Net Zero by 2050. This might seem a little slow for a company like Pawprint, but after much thought and debate we decided that offsetting (at current) doesn’t align with our values. Until permanent solutions are more reliable and affordable, we’re focused on bringing our footprint down through reductions that are in line with science-based targets, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Our targets set us on a pathway to real net zero emissions by 2050... At the latest.
For more detail on our real net zero strategy, see our full Carbon Report:
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As recommended by SBTi, these targets represent:
We see these targets as the bare minimum, and will strive to reduce our emissions faster.
We want to practice what we preach, so alongside everything else Team Pawprint will be making regular use of the Pawprint App to maximise everyday carbon savings, learn and share sustainable tips and tricks, and even stoke up some healthy internal competition.
