The Journey to Sustainability
Jamie Wright, Managing Director of Incentive QAS, on why the company believes that climate change is top of the agenda.
Climate change is the most critical sustainability issue today, and we pride ourselves on our sustainable policies. These impact our business on a day-to-day basis, how we interact with our clients, and always focus on making a positive impact on our environment.
We have revised our purchasing policies and supply chain partners in order to ensure that we’re reducing our impact on the environment wherever possible, and working with like-minded companies who place the utmost importance on sustainability.
Our intention is to be net zero by 2030 and we’re well on our way, having achieved Planet Mark accreditation. Our accreditation has been based around the following commitments and key targets:
• 2022: Switch to 100% renewable energy in all properties where we directly procure energy.
• 2024: Have a carbon neutral vehicle fleet.
• 2028:Minimise our scope 3 emissions by supporting our staff to be carbon neutral in their personal lives.
• 2030: Be a 100% carbon neutral business through the use of latest technology and products across all services, working with carbon neutral supply partners, and offsetting any remaining carbon emissions.
Reducing Carbon Footprint We’ve adopted measures to reduce our carbon footprint:
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Introduced hybrid vehicles to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and lessen carbon emissions.
• Energy and utilities are conserved to the maximum by all reasonable measures, having switched to renewable energy sources.
• All staff plan their journeys in order to minimise environmental impact.
• Phone-conference alternatives used where possible.
• All Group activities are in line with a ‘zero waste’ principle, applied as far as the site infrastructure allows.
• Furniture and other consumables are ordered from low impact sustainable sources.
• Conversion to paperless records. • 100% of paper and cardboard is recycled. •
Net Zero
Achieving net zero is crucial and within the Group we are well on our way to achieving it by 2030. We have revised our purchasing policies towards more environmentally-friendly products and invested in several sustainability projects.
For example we now source and supply paper products from Metsä Tissue’s Katrin range, a Finland-based paper mill which owns and harvests their own forest. Their sustainable harvesting takes both environmental and social values into account, including nature and biodiversity.
Across the company we have multiple sustainability goals. We implement and operate the ISO 14001 environmental management system to further enhance our performance. Our main sustainable drivers are to:
• Design and implement systems to enable the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste.
• Improve energy efficiency and reduce energy waste.
• Use products from sustainable resources wherever this is possible.
• Take measures to prevent pollution.
• Meet or exceed relevant environmental legislation, regulations, and other requirements.
• Endeavour to purchase from suppliers who share our concern over the environment and take measures to ensure their own operations reflect this.
• Fully understand our clients’ legal obligations and ensure compliance.
We’ve identified where we can make positive changes, and are using environmentally-friendly products wherever possible. Cleaning chemicals are being replaced with water- based solutions and we use innovative products to reduce our impact upon the environment, as well as improve the working environment for our staff and clients.
We have been working with Greenspeed and Lotus Pro, who provide environmentally-friendly cleaning products which are innovative and sustainable, enabling staff to use minimal amounts of water in combination with ecological, plant-based cleaning agents.
Printing of documents is to be commissioned on chlorine-free recycled paper.
• All Incentive activity will aim to contribute to socioeconomic progress, equality, diversity and empowerment, at all levels, local and global.
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As an industry we’re positively addressing reduce, reuse, and recycle policies and replacing long-established products and systems with more sustainable resources wherever possible.
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