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Through our people and relationships we apply our procurement expertise to enhance the value created in our communities and environment and we embed these principles on a day to day basis. As we celebrate Earth Day once again, we look back at how our positive actions impact on the environment.
Offsetting our Carbon Emissions
In 2020, Value Match started to offset our carbon emissions as a team, to become more efficient towards our carbon output. As a remote based business, our team work from their home offices. We took our household energy consumption and put 25% of this calculation towards our work as well as our business mileage both private and public transportation. Once we decided on our goal, we began researching various organisations to partner with, we were recommended to an organisation called Carbon Footprint Ltd.
When we approached Carbon Footprint Ltd, they offered various packages to determine the carbon correctly and accurately we produced. We then used the calculator provided on Carbon Footprint’s website to accurately calculate the carbon produced for each member of the team. When the data had been correctly calculated and audited by Carbon Footprint. Our carbon output was calculated at 12 tCO2e. We continued to offset our carbon emissions through verified carbon reduction projects and planting trees in the North West, UK.
Since 2020, we have decreased our carbon footprint by 8 tCO2e and have offset our carbon emissions through verified carbon reduction projects and planting trees in the North of England.
