Carbon Reduction Policy
Supplier Name: Vetro Recruitment
Publication Date: 31/01/2024
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Vetro Recruitment Ltd is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2024.
Baseline Emissions Footprint
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.
Baseline Year: FY 2021 Jan - Dec
Additional Details Relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations
Our emissions have not been published in prior years so our Baseline Emissions were calculated using data from our financial year ending 30/12/2021.
We are a Health, Social Care and Teaching Agency, with 31 staff and offices in Caerphilly and Liverpool. We have 2 staff members who work from home. In our baseline year, we spent Jan-April of 2021 working from home due to lockdown measures. Our current year's figures (2022) below will therefore be initially higher as we are back in the office and commuting as well as meeting with clients again which has seen an increase from 2021 to 2022 for those logistical reasons. Although 2022 will be higher than our baseline year (due to covid restrictions being relaxed) we will outline the steps we have taken to reduce our Carbon offsetting measurements.
The document sets out how we are going to achieve Carbon neutrality by 2023 rather than the mandated target of 2050.
Baseline Year Emissions:
EMISSIONS: TOTAL (tCO2e)
Scope 1: 0 - We don't own any company vehicles so we don't produce any scope 1 emissions.
Scope 2: 29,433 Kwh x 0.21233kgCO2e = 6.2 tCO2e
Scope 3 (Included Sources): Upstream T&D - Not Relevant - Explanation Provided - Vetro Recruitment are a recruitment company who supplies staff to the Health, Social Care, and Education sectors. We provide services rather than goods which means transportation and distribution of goods are not relevant to us.
Waste generated in operations - 0 - We work in serviced offices so this would be reported by the landlord as there are over 20 businesses within the business park as we have no way to collect this data.
Business travel - 0kgCO2e - No client visits conducted due to restrictions placed at hospitals.
Employee commuting 2.7 tCO2e
Car emission calculated at 411 grams carbon per mile of car driving.
Train emission calculated at 82.2 grams per person per mile.
Downstream transportation and distribution - 0. We do not produce or manufacture physical items, our "products", therefore, we have no upstream or downstream transportation, distribution or waste products.
Total Emissions: 8.9 tCO2e
Current Emissions Reporting
Reporting Year: Jan - Dec 2023
EMISSIONS: TOTAL (tCO2e)
Scope 1: 0
Scope 2: 5.41 tCO2e
Scope 3: (Included Sources): Upstream T&D - Not Relevant - Explanation Provided - Vetro Recruitment is a recruitment company that supplies staff for the Health, Social Care, and Education sectors. We provide services rather than goods which means transportation and distribution of goods are not relevant to us.
We have no company cars.
Waste generated in operations - 0. We work in serviced offices so this would be reported by the landlord as there are over 20 businesses within the business park and we have no way to collect this data.
Business travel - 4.8 tCO2e
Employee commuting - 3.7 tCO2e
Car emissions calculated at 411 grams carbon per mile of car driving
Train emission calculated at 82.2 grams per person per mile.
Downstream transportation and distribution - 0. We do not produce or manufacture physical items, our "products", therefore, we have no upstream or downstream transportation, distribution or waste products.
Total Emissions: 13.21 tCO2e
Emissions Reduction Targets
We committed to being carbon-neutral by the end of 2024 and pledged that we wanted an accurate emissions projection from our new offices before doing that.
Carbon Offsetting Plan
Tree Planting:
We will be working with the environmental organisation More Trees in order to plant trees to offset any of the emissions that we cannot reduce via our reduction plan above. We are setting a target to be carbon neutral by the end of 2024.
https://moretrees.eco/businesses/recruitment/
We have attended meetings with carbon neutrality consultants from this organisation and once we have the correct data from our current landlord on our emissions we plan to reduce as much as possible by speaking to the landlord about renewable energy suppliers, insisting on energy-efficient LED lighting and any other initiatives they have that can reduce our emissions. Once we have that measurement we will offset whatever is remaining by purchasing carbon reduction credits.
Projections
In 2023 we will have had increased emissions and are fully aware of the reasons behind this. We now have a plan to reduce those emissions with the above initiatives and will be able to offset the remainder to be carbon neutral by the end of 2024.
Our Carbon Reduction Policy will be updated for 2024 to outline this carbon neutrality pledge.
Declaration and Sign-Off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standards for Carbon Reduction Plans. Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard4 and use the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting5.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard6.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the director.