Consultancy and market research company

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Being a service company our emissions due to our own production is limited. It is however measured (emissions due to online searches, computer equipments, servers etc.). The company also measure its emissions from business travels, communiting and its suppliers. All the annual emissions (about 22tCo2 per year) are then off-set via an offset scheme. The plan is to be as vertious as possible when it comes to commuting and being extremely mindful about international business travels. For the rest the emissions come from strickly necessary activities which can\'t be cut down. The plan is to improve where possible but to continue offsetting all our emissions as we are since 2022.

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SFA used the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG) Emissions Calculation Tool to measure some of the areas described below. There are multiple methods for calculating supplier emissions, and these are broadly split into two approaches - those that require information directly from the supplier and those that use secondary data. The supplier-specific approach generally relies on product level consumption data, whereas the hybrid method uses supplier data to calculate scope 1 and 2 emissions, but allocates these emissions based on spend and product purchased, for example. Secondary data can be used to plug gaps where information is not available from the suppliers themselves. Average-data and spend-based methods rely solely on secondary data, estimating emissions based on industry and material averages. • Estimation of SFA’s suppliers’ emission in their activities for/at SFA in 2023 o IT support company + Accounting & HR o Cleaning service company o Office supply o Other products (e.g. office catering, cakes) o Coffee machine and pods The 2023 estimation of SFA’ suppliers’ emissions has proven to be a difficult task. There is indeed a mix of services – mostly offered remotely with marginal levels of emissions (e.g. HR & accounting or IT support) - and goods (e.g. office supply and other products). The provision of those goods should also include their emissions due to their mode of delivery (e.g. an Amazon order isn’t carbon neutral ). Unfortunately, SFA did not collect any data in 2023 to properly estimate its suppliers’ emissions. This will be with one of the objectives in 2025, to keep an accurate record for each provision of goods and also to rely more and more on our suppliers for this data. This will be a way to include them into our journey to carbon neutrality. As an acknowledgement of its suppliers’ impact and considering SFA’s regular orders via Amazon Business, SFA will estimate its emission to a symbolic level of 1.5 tonne of CO2 in 2023. SFA used the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG) Emissions Calculation Tool to measure some of the areas described below: • Estimation of SFA employees’ emissions for commuting in 2023 including o Emissions for commuting by car: 6463.7 miles in 2023  1.78 tCO2 o Emission for commuting by train: 8384 miles in 2023  0.55tCO2 o Emission for commuting by foot  0 tCo2 o Emission for commuting by bike  0 tCO2 SFA used to measure some of the areas described below: • Estimation of SFA’s emissions due to internet searches in 2023 One SFA researcher is making on average around 300 internet searches daily. One Google search generates around 7gr of CO2 . There are 2,000 days worked in the office, which represent 600,000 internet searches. This would represent 4.2 tonnes of CO2 • Estimation of SFA’s emissions due to emails (sent) One SFA researcher is sending on average around 30 emails daily. One email sent (without attachment) represent 4gr of CO2 . There are 2,000 days worked in the office, which represent 60,000 emails sent. This would represent 2.4 tonnes of CO2. • Estimation of SFA’s emission due to computer equipment in 2023 SFA started to change from iMac to laptops during 2022. This was a progressive transition to laptops which are more economical. The carbon cost of SFA 15 computers is the wattage of each computer (average 70 for laptops) multiplied by the total uptime (8 hours over an average of 133 days) divided by 1000 (to convert to kilowatt hours) multiplied by the UK reporting factor of 0.462. The figure reached is then multiplied again by 15 to determine the total carbon cost of using that many computers in our theoretical setting. A laptop uses on average around 60kg of CO2 per year so that is about 0.99 tonnes of CO2 emission in 2023. • Estimation of SFA’s emission due to printed documents in 2023 SFA did not keep track of the volume of documents printed in 2023, however it is important to note that systematic printing isn’t a common practice at SFA. SFA may have used one and half to two blocks of 500 sheets in 2023. Based on available data, the average Co2 emissions of a printed page is 6g of CO2. SFA emission from printing were between 4.5kg and 6kg of CO2 in 2023 (0.0045 and 0.006 tonnes of C02). • Estimation of SFA’s emissions due to maintaining the server in 2023 SFA is not able to estimate these emissions in 2023. SFA does use a physical server and cloud services too which make it complex to estimate. Based on available data cloud server using non-green electricity would be 0.5 tonnes of CO2e / year and server, and an on-premises server using non-green electricity would be 1 tonne of CO2e / year and server. Given the size of the server and volume of data, SFA’s emissions could be closer to 0.5 tonnes of CO2 in 2023. SFA used the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG) Emissions Calculation Tool to measure some of the areas described below: • Estimation of SFA’s emissions due to car & taxi journeys in 2023: 0.1t • Estimation of SFA’s emission due to domestic/continental/European flights in 2023: 1.22t • Estimation of SFA’s emission due to trans-continental flights in 2023: 6.2t

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No - we plan to in the next 1-5 years

SFA-C reduced its emissions when compared to 2022. Its levels of emission are constant with 2022 except for the business travels.