Ancoris Carbon Reduction Plan
Ancoris is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2030. We will be Carbon Neutral by the end of 2022.
Baseline Emissions Footprint
Baseline Year: 2019/20
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.
Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations
Our baseline emissions have been calculated on the basis of the headcount in our organisation in the year 1st Aug 2019 - 31st July 2020, using data previously collected at the time.
Scope 3 sources include:
- Business usage car mileage (and taxis)
- Business usage Rail and air travel
- IT Equipment (e.g. laptops, etc.)
- IT infrastructure for internal projects
- IT infrastructure for customer based projects that are not billed directly to the customer
Note that the majority of staff are office based with no travel to customers, hence Scope 2 emissions exceed Scope 3.
Baseline year emissions: 2019/20
| Emissions | Total (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 0 |
| Scope 2 | 22.789 |
| Scope 3 (included sources) | 19.135 |
| Total emissions | 41.924 |
With an average headcount of 41, this equates to emissions / employee of 1.023 tCO2e.
Current Emissions Reporting
Current emissions are detailed as below. Two conflicting forces have impacted the total emissions figures:
- Impact of Covid – requiring more WFH; much reduced travel and hence reduced emissions
- Significantly increased headcount – growing to an average of 76 for the 20/21 year – increasing the potential for emissions
Measurement Year: 2021/22
Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations
Our current emissions have been calculated on the basis of the headcount in our organisation in the year 1st Aug 2021 - 31st July 2022 using data collected at the time.
Scope 3 sources include:
- Business usage car mileage (and taxis)
- Business usage Rail and air travel
- IT Equipment (eg laptops etc)
- IT infrastructure for internal projects
- IT infrastructure for customer based projects that are not billed directly to the customer
Note that the majority of staff are office based with no travel to customers, hence relatively high Scope 2 emissions compared to Scope 3.
Baseline year emissions: 2021/22
| Emissions | Total (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 0 |
| Scope 2 | 18.574 |
| Scope 3 (included sources) | 14.105 |
| Total emissions | 32.680 |
With an average headcount of 76, this equates to emissions / employee of 0.433 tCO2e, a reduction of 57.67% from the baseine
Summary details for our progress to date are:
| Period | Total Emissions (tCO2e) |
Average headcount |
Emissions per head (tCO2e) | Change cf Baseline |
| 2019/20 Baseline | 41.924 | 41 | 1.023 | - |
| 2020/21 | 17.533 | 47 | 0.373 | -63.52% |
| 2021/22 | 32.680 | 76 | 0.433 | -57.67% |
Offset Certificate
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Information on the projects we are supporting.
Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets.
We are targeting carbon emissions that decrease over the next five years to 0.2 tCO2e PER HEAD by 2025. This is a reduction of 54% per head from today’s level, and a reduction of 80.5% from the baseline level
In order to then achieve net zero, we will purchase appropriate Carbon offsets.
Carbon Reduction Projects
Completed Carbon Reduction Initiatives
The following environmental management measures and projects have been completed or implemented since the 2019/20 baseline.
- Take-on of more “green” accommodation space in London
- Replacement of some IT requirement used by staff
- Move of on-premise servers to the cloud
- Increased our “remote delivery” capability leading to less client based travel
- Increased use of Video and web based client and internal calls
- Introduced new market facing “greenlab” service to identify changes customers can make, and applied the same principles ourselves
The carbon emission reduction achieved by these schemes equate to 5.5 tCO2e, or 0.58 tCO2e per team member - a reduction of a 62% reduction against the 2019 baseline
Future Carbon Reduction Initiatives
In the future we hope to implement further measures such as:
- Purchase of Carbon offsets to take us to Carbon Neutral status by the end of 2022
- Increased focus on working with landlords of our offices to focus on Carbon reduction based operational initiatives
- Intelligent heating and lighting systems
- Use of renewable electricity
- Availability of Electric vehicle charging stations
- Refresh and use more efficient IT equipment
- Continue to focus on having all new systems in the cloud
- Review of expenses policy to potentially incentivise usage of electric vehicles and public transport
- Support of initiatives encouraging staff to adopt personal “green” behaviors e.g. “Count us in” https://count-us-in.com