Race to Zero Carbon Footprint Reports: Baseline, 21/22 and 22/23
In July 2021, Efeca joined the United Nation’s Race to Zero campaign.
Race To Zero is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth. It mobilizes a coalition of leading net zero initiatives, representing 1,136 cities, 67 regions, 8,307 businesses, 595 financial institutions, and 1,125 Higher Education Institutions. These ‘real economy’ actors joined 120 countries starting in 2021 in the largest ever alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. Collectively these actors now cover nearly 25% global CO2 emissions and over 50% GDP.
As a small business, Efeca joined the Race to Zero through the UK’s SME Climate Hub, along with many other small and medium sized UK businesses. Efeca pledged to halve emissions before 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2040. The first step in this journey was to measure our baseline emissions, for the year 2019-2020. We then measured and reported our emissions for 2021-2022 so that we would have a comparison for a more normal (non-Covid) year.
The following reports contains the outcomes of our reporting calculation of our GHG emissions for our baseline year 2019 – 2020, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
They include information on our company, background on our choice of baseline year, information on our scope of reporting and methodologies, and information on our GHG emission totals.
We agreed to achieve carbon neutralisation of our total emissions for 2019/20, 2021/22, and 2022/23, which we have achieved through the purchase of carbon offsets in 2023 from a Plan Vivo project called CommuniTree in Nicaragua. Our total emissions from April 2019 – March 2023 equalled 38.84 tonnes, so we purchased 39 tonnes of carbon credits. We chose Plan Vivo as Emily is a Trustee and we chose CommuniTree for their work with smallholder farmers in Nicaragua to grow native trees alongside their existing farming practices and their beyond carbon removals approach including encouraging agro-forestry.
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