<p>What changes have we made at Metrikus?</p>
With a year of company emissions data up our sleeves, we started to look at ways of reducing our impact. As we quickly found out, this wasn’t always straightforward.
The Sustainability Committee had regular meetings where we came up with great ideas on how we could sail the company to more sustainable waters, but the reality was that these solutions were often at odds with our resources – in other words, they were impractical or (for the time being) too expensive.
Our approach was to come up with various solutions to our different sources of emissions, and give them a ranking from 1-5 on the impact they would have, their cost, and feasibility. We prioritized solutions that had the most impact but were feasible to implement given our current resources.
The above approach led us to implement the following solutions:
As a building efficiency platform, our solution primarily operates within the cloud. Sometimes, however, a client requires additional sensors to be fitted in their building and we fulfill this by reselling from hardware vendors. Our ethical and sustainable procurement policy outlines certain criteria which must be met by our suppliers: these are environmental, ethical and social.
We amended this policy to include a statement of preference to those suppliers with a net zero strategy, actively working to lower carbon emissions which can aid and optimize our scope 3 impacts. In conjunction with this amendment, we reached out to our current suppliers to ask for their sustainability policies or net zero strategies, with the hope of influencing better environmental practices throughout our supply chain.
To lower our business emissions related to hotels, we are now using Staze to complete the bookings. Using Staze, we can see the emissions related to each hotel booking and can opt for the lower impact option. Additionally, the emissions are offset through a portfolio of four high-quality projects.
Our Green Commute Initiative has been in place for a year and incentivises workers to purchase a bike for the purpose of commuting to work. There is potential for this to be more widely used and we are working on internal communications to increase uptake.