<p>Our sustainability journey so far</p>
2021 was the year we began our environmental reporting journey.
We joined Tech Zero and were in the first 50 companies to sign up to a net zero goal. This allowed us to access some great resources to begin measuring and reporting our impact.
Our Sustainability Committee was formed to begin embedding sustainable initiatives throughout our organization. This included setting targets and developing strategies to achieve them.
We calculated all our historical emissions using Future Learn’s carbon calculator, and used our 2021 emission data as our base year.
The findings were published in our first ever Impact Report. The goal was to be as transparent as possible on our journey, focusing on what we have achieved so far and what the next steps will be.
The Sustainability Committee used the emissions data to develop reduction strategies, prioritizing the areas which will have the most impact.
We worked with Patch to offset all our historical emissions – all of the carbon we have ever produced since Metrikus was founded in 2019. You can read more about our offsets later in this report.
We implemented several reduction strategies throughout various company policies, including updating our travel and supplier agreements.
We launched our Dark January campaign to increase awareness of office lighting being left on unnecessarily. The City of London seemed to like this idea, and in February it proposed to turn off the lights in the city’s biggest skyscrapers.
We joined the SME Climate Hub and the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign to share resources and tools, and used the Business Carbon Calculator by Normative to calculate our 2022 emissions. The methodology follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and can be read here.
And lastly, we’ve continued to develop and implement our sustainability solution to help others reduce the environmental impact of their buildings!