Net-Zero Roadmap
Play your part in tackling the climate and ecological crisis, and gain competitive advantage
Solutions to help your organisation tackle the climate and ecological crisis, and gain competitive advantage
Solutions to help your organisation tackle the climate and ecological crisis, achieve ESG goals, and gain competitive advantage.
We help clients to understand their environmental impact, decarbonise and achieve their ESG goals for a sustainable future.
Climate change represents perhaps the greatest risk to our way of life. But it also represents our greatest opportunity to achieve something truly special.
Governments, institutions and companies are all coming together to combat global warming.
To reach Net-Zero, we need to cut greenhouse gases by 50% by 2030, and by at least 80% by 2050 to prevent the worst damaging effects of climate change.
We must also balance any residual emissions by removing carbon from the atmosphere, protect and restore natural habitats and enhance biodiversity.
Read morePlay your part in tackling the climate and ecological crisis, and gain competitive advantage
Ensure compliance with your reporting obligations
Reduce running costs and environmental impact
Understand and reduce your energy use
Manage and streamline reporting requirements
Find the right offset strategy for your organisation
Net-Zero is an ambitious but necessary target for governments, institutions and companies to dramatically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the most damaging effects of climate change. Net-Zero for companies is defined as achieving two conditions:
In order to reduce your carbon footprint, you must first understand your impact – not only of your direct operations but also of your supply chain. We can practically and robustly calculate your company’s carbon footprint, including emissions sources such as gas, electricity, vehicle fleet, business travel, consumable materials, waste and recycling, employee commuting, homeworking, subcontractors and suppliers.
With any Net-Zero journey, there will data that is either not available or challenging to obtain. In such cases, it is often not practical to spend significant resources and time to pursue. We employ clear and transparent estimations in line with best practice reporting standards. This allows companies to get started, quantify baseline emissions and begin making reductions as early as possible, whilst improving data capture in future years.
Once you have an accurate understanding of your organisations carbon footprint and the key emissions sources, the next step is to set a carbon reduction target. Adopting a Science-Based Target means that your emissions reductions will meet, or exceed, the Paris Agreement and, therefore, play your part in preventing the worst possible impacts of climate change.
To achieve the Science-Based Target, a detailed Net-Zero roadmap should be developed. Our experts will explore all opportunities to reduce emissions across your organisation, establish the feasibility and effectiveness, and prioritise recommendations. Reducing carbon emissions and achieving Net-Zero is not easy. We are experts in the management, decommissioning and adaption of fuel and energy infrastructure; and understand the intricacies of transitioning to renewable and alternative fuels. Our Net-Zero action plans take into account all the indirect challenges and consequences of decarbonisation, and provide practical solutions.
Once implemented, we can support you to quantify and verify the emissions savings. By calculating absolute carbon emissions and key performance indicators (KPIs), we can assess progress towards your reductions targets over time.
As part of any Net-Zero plan, some form of carbon removal will be required. It is not expected that every organisation can eliminate all of its emissions immediately, and some areas of the supply chain will not be decarbonised for many years to come. To compensate for these residual emissions, an organisation can invest in carbon offsets (wind, solar etc.) or nature-based solutions (tree planting, rainforest conservation, peatland restoration etc). There are hundreds of carbon offsetting options and it can be hard to know where to start. Our experts will guide you through the process, identify what values are important to your organisation and find a project which matches those values.
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) is a legal requirement for all large organisations to disclose their energy and carbon emissions within their annual Director’s Report, or separate sustainability report. Large companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) under SECR are defined as meeting at least two of the following three criteria:
Furthermore, quoted companies of any size, listed on a major stock exchange and incorporated in the United Kingdom must also report.
SMEs are encouraged to participate in SECR, as it represents best practice in environmental disclosures and helps to identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact and save money.
Unquoted Large Companies and LLPs
Scope 3 emissions only cover business travel where the company is supplied with fuel but not where fuel is paid for indirectly. For example, fuel is consumed in personal vehicles and hire cars (and reimbursed by the company either exactly or at a set rate) but fuel associated business flights, trains or taxis are excluded, as the vehicles are not operated by the company or its employees.
However, companies are strongly encouraged to report other materials source of Scope 3 emissions relevant to their business. These may include other forms of business travel, materials, waste, employee commuting, homeworking, transport of goods etc.
Whilst not mandatory, external verification or assurance is recommended to ensure accuracy, completeness of reporting.
Quoted Companies
Scope 3 emissions are voluntary for quoted companies. However, it is becomingly increasingly expected that companies account for and tackle emissions with their supply chains.
Transport can often represent a significant operational cost to a business, and extensive environmental impact.
Through improved data capture, improved operating practices and investment in new and emerging technologies, a business can significantly reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. And by extension, a company can also contribute to enhancing local air quality and improving health and wellbeing.
A transport audit can cover company owned vehicle fleet, employee vehicles and public transport use.
The process analyses actual energy and fuel use against expected levels to identify any inefficiencies. Costed recommendations, including simple payback calculations and full lifecycle analysis set out the expected return on investment.
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is a mandatory energy audit scheme which affects all large companies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union (EU). Large enterprises are defined as:
SMEs may also qualify for ESOS is they are part of a corporate group that contains at least one entity which meets either criterion above
ESOS runs in 4-year cycles. We are currently in ESOS Phase 3, with the compliance deadline due on 5th December 2023. Any energy audits conducted between December 2019 and December 2023 can count towards compliance.
Companies must conduct energy audits on a representative sample of its operations and must account for at least 90% of total energy consumption. This includes buildings, transport and all other processes. Adler and Allan can produce a comprehensive ESOS Compliance Plan, demonstrating the most cost-effective route to compliance and deliver the audits.
Our sustainability experts are ESOS Lead Assessors and have extensive experience in conducting audits of large-scale building portfolios, vehicle fleets, manufacturing and construction activities. This is coupled with specific expertise in electric, oil, gas, biodiesel, hydrogen and renewables to provide energy audits which are bespoke to your needs.
By understanding how energy is consumed within your business, it is possible to identify substantial financial and environmental savings. Our experienced energy auditors can develop a detailed energy audit programme, bespoke to your organisation. With our expertise in sustainability, fuel and energy infrastructure, not only can we identify actions to reduce your consumption but support you to implement change in the optimal manner.
Adler and Allan can work with your organisation to identify:
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is a mandatory energy audit scheme which affects all large companies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union (EU). Large enterprises are defined as:
SMEs may also qualify for ESOS is they are part of a corporate group that contains at least one entity which meets either criterion above
ESOS runs in 4-year cycles. We are currently in ESOS Phase 3, with the compliance deadline due on 5th December 2023. Any energy audits conducted between December 2019 and December 2023 can count towards compliance. Companies must conduct energy audits on a representative sample of its operations and must account for at least 90% of total energy consumption. This includes buildings, transport and all other processes. Adler and Allan can produce a comprehensive ESOS Compliance Plan, demonstrating the most cost-effective route to compliance and deliver the audits.
Our sustainability experts are ESOS Lead Assessors and have extensive experience in conducting audits of large-scale building portfolios, vehicle fleets, manufacturing and construction activities. This is coupled with specific expertise in electric, oil, gas, biodiesel, hydrogen and renewables to provide energy audits which are bespoke to your needs.
Unfortunately, buildings do not always perform in uniform ways. Often buildings are overheated or overcooled. Sometimes people are placed in suboptimal areas. By understanding the characteristics of your building and the usage patterns, you can identify opportunities to optimise energy use and enhance the wellbeing and comfort of your occupants.
Non-Financial reporting is the process of gathering and disclosing data on a company’s performance including environmental, social, ethical, governance aspects. The definition of ESG will differ from organisation to organisation, and must be authentic to be effective. However, ESG reporting must also be robust and consistent to ensure that companies can be compared and held to account.
There are a number of best practice sustainability reporting standards used by companies, institutions and investors alike. Sometimes organisations are required to participate in multiple recording frameworks for various reasons. Our sustainability expert can help to streamline the disclosure process and support tangible improvements in ESG scores.
CDP (formally Carbon Disclosure Project) is a best practice standard which requires companies to report on Environmental, Social and Governance issues. CDP uses a robust scoring methodology to measure an organisations progress on tackling climate change, deforestation, water scarcity, and uses the data to rank companies’ performance. 590 investors with over US$110 trillion in assets and 200 large buyers with US$5.5trillon in procurement spend use CDP to measure the sustainability of its supply chain and investments. The benefits of participating in CDP are:
Our sustainability professionals are experts in the CDP process. We can support your organisation to streamline and optimise your CDP reporting procedures, obtain better data, reduce impacts and improve ESG scores.
The Global Reporting Initiative provides a framework for consistent reporting of sustainability, ethics and economic performance. The GRI publishes a set of specific standards for topics including:
Our team of sustainability experts can support you to set up robust reporting practices in line with the GRI,and ensure transparency of disclosure to the most rigorous of standards.
Not all carbon offsets are created equal. There are thousands of projects available to invest in.
Projects could be renewable energy related (solar, wind, hydroelectric); domestic scale (supporting rural communities to use greener fuels) or nature based (rainforest conservation, tree planting, peatland restoration etc.)
Many projects can also have social and ecological sustainability benefits. An increasing amount of projects are being mapped against the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) to demonstrate progress toward tackling global issues such as climate change and inequality.
We can support your organisation to find the right carbon offset project which aligns with your corporate values and objectives.
Our carbon offset facilitation process includes:
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