Carbon Reduction Planning

What is a Carbon Reduction Plan?

A Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) aims to implement targeted actions to measure, report, and reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. It assists organisations in identifying and planning actions to mitigate and reduce GHG emissions within a specified timeframe. A Carbon Reduction Plan also helps develop credible baseline scenarios to demonstrate future GHG emission reductions and removals and sets targets for achieving carbon neutrality or net-zero emissions.

This comprehensive approach may also be integrated into a broader Carbon Management framework assisting organisations in minimising their environmental impact, supports strategies for emission reduction, and contributes to reducing your impact on climate change.

How it can make a difference to your organisation

Reduces environmental impact

Carbon Reduction Planning allows for the development and implementation of carbon reduction projects and strategies, reducing GHG emissions and environmental impact

Customer confidence

Strengthen your green credentials in the marketplace, enhance your organisations reputation and appeal to environmentally conscious stakeholders

Target setting

Set GHG emission reduction targets to establish clear goals, define your future direction and provide a benchmark for your progress. Align these targets with global initiatives such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) if applicable

Monitoring

Monitor and report GHG emissions to track performance and GHG emissions reduction progress

Reduce operating costs

Identify areas in which you can improve energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption and resource costs to increase profitability

Supports compliance

Compliance with regulatory and voluntary GHG programmes such as SECR regulations and supporting other sustainability reporting initiatives (e.g. PPN06/21 Carbon Reduction Plans, SBTi’s, ESOS)

Carbon Reduction Planning Process

Planning

By working together to understand all stakeholder requirements, we will define the boundaries of your facilities and sources of GHG emissions—both direct and indirect. This ensures that your carbon reduction plan aligns with your business objective

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Carbon Footprinting

We will complete your carbon footprint report, breaking down your emissions over those you control (Scope 1 & 2) and those that you can influence (Scope 3). This helps to identify your ‘hot spots’ and allow for our next stage for GHG Reduction Planning

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GHG Reduction Planning

We will identify, develop, and plan a range of actions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on areas with the highest potential for positive change. This includes setting targets to demonstrate your commitment to reducing GHG emissions. Our approach can be tailored to support validation through initiatives like the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), if required

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Carbon Reduction Plan

We will produce a carbon reduction plan, establishing a framework for effective carbon reduction and mitigation. Our team will collaborate with you to ensure ongoing success and continuous improvement, this includes monitoring of your emission reduction progress and climate change adaptation goals, supporting any annual reporting requirements

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Why choose Teamwork IMS?

Experienced Professionals

Teamwork IMS is a leading provider of Compliance and Sustainability solutions to a wide range of business sectors worldwide. Our solutions support compliance, expedite ISO certification, promote sustainability and drive improvement initiatives. Our team of professionals includes MBCI, GDPR, ISEP, ESOS and ISO Lead Assessor, CMIOSH, CISSP, PCI Security Standards Council QSA qualified consultants.

Multi-disciplinary team

Our knowledge and experience across a broad base of management and technical Standards make us uniquely equipped to help organisations to comply with sustainability requirements and integrate these with existing management systems to achieve significant savings and efficiencies.

Part of your business

The continued success of both the project delivery and maintenance phases of our Compliance and Sustainability programmes is built on two key principles:

– The exceptional insight of our consultants, who consistently go beyond the Standards and services to identify, define, and align with the core business drivers that truly matter to our clients

– Our unique ability to integrate effortlessly with our clients’ teams, fostering collaboration and trust, and becoming a valued extension of their operations.

Global Credentials

We have developed and led IAF National accredited ISO as well as other Standard and compliance-based service improvement programmes for private and public-sector organisations across an international client base.

How can Teamwork help?

Whether you are undertaking your first carbon reduction plan, update an existing one or looking to achieve carbon neutrality on your pathway to net zero, we can help.

We’ll work with you to understand all your business drivers and objectives. These could be carbon reduction planning including PPN06/21, carbon neutral, net zero road map, SBTi’s or to support your wider sustainability strategy. This ensures we deliver a bespoke plan that meets your strategic aims as well as supporting you with information to reduce emissions and negative impacts on climate change.

Related Standards & Regulations

Frequently asked questions

What is a PPN06/21 Carbon Reduction Plan?

PPN 06/21 refers to the Procurement Policy Note 06/21, which outlines the requirement for suppliers bidding on major government contracts to include a Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP). This policy is part of the UK government’s commitment to achieving Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.

In-scope organisations should satisfy themselves that suppliers have provided a published CRP which:

Has been published on the supplier’s website
Has been signed off at an appropriate level within 12 months of the date of the procurement
Includes a signed declaration confirming the supplier’s commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050 (at the latest)
Details the supplier’s Greenhouse Gas emissions
Details the environmental management measures that can be applied in the delivery of the contract.

Teamwork can help you develop a PPN06/21 compliant Carbon Reduction Plan including annual updates.

What is carbon neutral and net zero?

Carbon neutral is a condition in which, during a specified period of time, a carbon footprint has been reduced as a result of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions or GHG removal enhancements and, if greater than zero, is then counterbalanced by offsetting.

Net zero GHG emissions is defined and assessed for organisations as the condition in which emissions have been reduced such that only residual emissions remain, and offsetting is restricted to removal credits only.

Carbon neutrality and net zero GHG emissions are related concepts. At a global scale, these terms are defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as being equivalent, both referring to the condition in which GHG emissions are balanced by GHG removals over a specified period. This condition is referred to as “global net zero GHG emissions”.

What is offsetting?

Offsetting is counterbalancing of a carbon footprint by retiring a carbon credit. Purchasing certified carbon credits fund climate protection projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A carbon credit is a greenhouse gas credit tradeable certificate representing one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent from GHG emission reductions or GHG removal enhancements.

Where applicable we can help you look at options for carbon offset projects through a carbon crediting programme to compensate for unavoidable emissions, ensuring any offset projects are certified by recognised Standards to guarantee their effectiveness and on a public registry.

How can I address environmental impacts other than GHG emissions?

Carbon footprinting and reduction planning addresses GHG emissions, this is a great starting point for businesses because of the data availability, their correlation with energy use, and often with other environmental impacts.

ISO 14001 is a globally recognised Standard that supports organisations in understanding and managing their wider environmental impacts. It provides a framework for improved environmental management helping you to reduce your resource use, improve the overall efficiency of your business and keep the environmental impact of your operations to a minimum.