Report results - SME Climate Hub

The SME Reporting Tool

Introduction *

Commitment and Targets *

Own Emissions *

Value Chain Emissions *

(optional)

Climate Solutions *

(optional)

Management, Strategy and Climate Risk *

(optional)

Results, Challenges and Outlook *

Version 3.0

1.1 Reporting year

2022

1.1.1 Reporting period

from 9.2021 to 8.2022

1.2 Describe your business activities

Providing cost consultancy services in the built environment

1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year

1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts

Headcounts

1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary

Not applicable

2.1 Net zero target year

2030

2.1.1 Base year

2022

2.2 Near-term target

50% of intensity total emission reduction from my base year by 2027

3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action

Yes

Energy consumption

3.2 Total energy consumption

10231.4 kwh

3.3 Renewable energy

5760.14 kwh

Scope 1 emissions

3.4 Scope 1 emissions

0 metric tons CO2e

Scope 2 emissions

3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions

2.931 metric tons CO2e

3.6 Market based scope 2 emissions

0 metric tons CO2e

3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.

Switch to renewable energy providers where possible with landlord, or explore new offices with renewable energy offering.

3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.

Normative calculator based upon pro-rata usage from the landlord for electricity and natural gas.

Scope 3 emissions

4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?

Yes

4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions

37.643 metric tons CO2e

Supply chain related - upstream emissions

4.1.2 Purchased goods and services

17.9 metric tons CO2e

4.1.3 Capital goods

3.64 metric tons CO2e

4.1.5 Transportation and distribution (upstream)

0.003 metric tons CO2e

4.1.6 Waste in operations

3.76 metric tons CO2e

4.1.7 Business travel

12.5 metric tons CO2e

4.1.8 Employee commuting

3.6 metric tons CO2e

4.1.9 Leased assets (upstream)

0 metric tons CO2e

Customer related - downstream emissions

4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?

4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?

4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?

Yes

4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.

Used Normative and data extracted from company expenses. There are limitations to this as it takes the general principle that the more you spend on a service or item, the more carbon is attributed to that service or item. Abakus have separately identified the employee commuting based upon employee questionnaires with a pro-rata allowance for working from home days, annual leave and partial employment within the reporting year. Abakus have use the recycling and waste to energy quantities provided by their value chain to determine waste calculation.

5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?

Yes

5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?

5 %

5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:

Carbon quantification services for construction projects. Also generally build embodied carbon knowledge into day-to-day delivery.

5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:

The quantification is used as part of the RICS carbon assessment.

6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.

Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level

6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.

Sam Johnson a Director at Abakus is responsible for the production of the climate strategy, updating this annually, and calculating the companies carbon footprint as well as providing training to the wider team

6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?

6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?

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

6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.

6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?

7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.

This is our baseline year. It included an element of working from home as we learn to work in a post-covid world with more flexible working. The data provided has come from two sources primarily. 1) the Landlord of the serviced office, The Office Group, who have pro-rata the overall building energy use by the serviced office area which would include a proportion of the shared common parts and lounges which remain in use when most are working from home; and 2) expenses from company accounts. Key challenges in reducing the embodied carbon include having limited control over energy selection in the building as a tenant, and being a consultancy there is limited scope for reducing Scope 3 emissions.

7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?

Reducing scope 3 emissions,Limited control over energy use in buildings,Balancing emission reductions with business growth,Inaccurate or insufficient data

7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?

1.1 Reporting year

2022

1.1.1 Reporting period

from 9.2021 to 8.2022

1.2 Describe your business activities

Providing cost consultancy services in the built environment

1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year

1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts

Headcounts

1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary

Not applicable

2.1 Net zero target year

2030

2.1.1 Base year

2022

2.2 Near-term target

50% of intensity total emission reduction from my base year by 2027

3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action

Yes

Energy consumption

3.2 Total energy consumption

10231.4 kwh

3.3 Renewable energy

5760.14 kwh

Scope 1 emissions

3.4 Scope 1 emissions

0 metric tons CO2e

Scope 2 emissions

3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions

2.931 metric tons CO2e

3.6 Market based scope 2 emissions

0 metric tons CO2e

3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.

Switch to renewable energy providers where possible with landlord, or explore new offices with renewable energy offering.

3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.

Normative calculator based upon pro-rata usage from the landlord for electricity and natural gas.

Scope 3 emissions

4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?

Yes

4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions

37.643 metric tons CO2e

Supply chain related - upstream emissions

4.1.2 Purchased goods and services

17.9 metric tons CO2e

4.1.3 Capital goods

3.64 metric tons CO2e

4.1.5 Transportation and distribution (upstream)

0.003 metric tons CO2e

4.1.6 Waste in operations

3.76 metric tons CO2e

4.1.7 Business travel

12.5 metric tons CO2e

4.1.8 Employee commuting

3.6 metric tons CO2e

4.1.9 Leased assets (upstream)

0 metric tons CO2e

Customer related - downstream emissions

4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?

4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?

4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?

Yes

4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.

5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?

Yes

5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?

5 %

5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:

Carbon quantification services for construction projects. Also generally build embodied carbon knowledge into day-to-day delivery.

5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:

The quantification is used as part of the RICS carbon assessment.

6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.

Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level

6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.

6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?

6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?

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

6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.

6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?

7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.

7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?

Reducing scope 3 emissions,Limited control over energy use in buildings,Balancing emission reductions with business growth,Inaccurate or insufficient data

7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?

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