carbon neutral organisation

uk carbody carbon management policy 

It is the policy of UK Carbody to manage and reduce the emissions from our operations and responsibly promote our achievements, with the aim of being a carbon neutral business.

UK Carbody will do this by:

• Following international standards including the World Resource Institutes Green House Gas Protocol and Defra’s GHG reporting guidelines for assessing carbon emissions.
• Putting in place a carbon management plan to reduce emissions.
• Setting targets to reduce emissions (on a per job basis) year on year.
• Assessing and reporting our carbon footprint on an annual basis.
• Offsetting our residual emissions through projects verified against the international Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard or Certified Emission Reductions (CERs).
• Helping to develop best practice including lobbying the appropriate government bodies or agencies for change in support of our clients carbon management needs.

carbon offsetting plan

Our main aim is to be a carbon neutral company. In order to achieve this status, we commit to achieve carbon reductions within our organisation and to offset all residual emissions.

Our offset projects and methodology for offsetting meet the following principles:

• The offsets we purchase or the allowance credits we surrender represent genuine, additional GHG emission reductions elsewhere.
• The projects involved in delivering our offsets meet the criteria of additionally, permanence, leakage and double counting.
• Our carbon offsets are verified by an independent third party verifier.
• Our credits from carbon offset projects are only issued after the emission reduction associated to the offset project has taken place.
• Our credits from carbon offset projects are retired within 12 months from the date of the declaration of achievement of carbon neutral status.
• Our credits from carbon offset projects are supported by publically available project documentation on a registry which provides information about the offset project, quantification methodology and validation and verification procedures.
• Our credits from carbon offset projects are stored and retired in an independent and credible registry.

Our offset credits are retired from the VCS registry on our behalf by Offset Ltd. Our offset credits can be tracked by anyone on the registry website (verra.org/registry-system/) by running a search using our company name – the credits will appear as retired by iOffset Ltd with a statement saying “Retired on behalf of UK Carbody”. When doing this, information will be displayed including:

• The amount of offset.
• The type of offset and projects involved
• The number and type of carbon offset credits used and the time period over which the credits have been generated.