Carbon Reduction Plan

Equal Experts UK Ltd is committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2030. This plan currently covers the UK only, which accounts for most of our revenue and emissions in the period.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions reporting

We calculate and report on our greenhouse gas emissions based on our financial year (FY), which starts in April, not by calendar year.

Reporting period   
Emissions in tCO2e FY 2019/20 Baseline FY 2020/21   FY 2021/22 FY 2022/23  FY 2023/24 FY 2024/25
Scope 1 0 0 0 0 0 8
Scope 2 845 3 1 6 6 11
Scope 3 n/a 163 178 849 885 832
Total 845 166 180 855 891 852

Table 1: Summary of our emissions for the last five years to the nearest integer.

Notes on our reporting

  • We use standard tons of CO2e emissions (tCO2e) and financial year 2019/20 as our Baseline for reporting purposes.
  • We have started to record Scope 1 emissions based on a better classification of gas used for heating in our managed offices.
  • Our Scope 2 emissions cover electrical usage within the above managed offices.
  • We generate and report Scope 3 emissions from the following sub-categories only:
    • Fuel and Energy Related activities.
    • Upstream Transport & Distribution
    • Waste from operations
    • Business Travel
    • Employee Commuting & Homeworking
    • Downstream Transport & Distribution

Financial Year 2024/25 (current reporting period)

We made the following assumptions in our calculations for this year.

  • Energy used from gas heating in our London and Manchester fall under Scope 1 emissions
  • Non-heating emissions from electricity generation in our offices fall under Scope 2 emissions.
  • Our Scope 3 emissions have been revised to include additional areas as follows:
  tCO2e.
Fuel and Energy Related activities 5
Upstream Transport & Distribution 2
Waste from operations 1
Business Travel 244
Employee Commuting & Homeworking 452
Downstream Transport & Distribution 129

 

Financial Year 2023/24 (last reporting period)

We made no changes to our assumptions for this period.

  • There is no change in our Scope 2 emissions as our managed office space has not changed so our calculations remain the same.
  • Our Scope 3 emissions were as follows:
    • 2. Capital goods (refresh cycle of IT equipment) – 54.5 tCO2e.
    • 6. Business travel – 280.4 tCO2e from a significant increase in travel, particularly for conferences and events.
    • 7. Staff commuting and working from home – 550 tCO2e from equipment and utilities increase due to a small increase in employees.

Emissions forecast

We have forecasted our emissions over the next four years based on current emissions.

We have not revised our projections based on the actual for the last period, which are driven by a consistent increase in travel per person, as well as more people. We do not see many opportunities to reduce our actual emissions without a significant restriction on travel (including commuting), which, as a consulting company, is not reasonable. So we continue to take other steps to meet our Net Zero target.

Meeting our Net Zero Reduction Targets

Current Net Zero Activities

The internal working group continues to monitor opportunities and review carbon reduction projects, for a carbon offset programme, but these haven’t been approved in this reporting period. We expect approval in 2025/26 period.

This portfolio of carbon offset projects will offset our emissions for the previous year and will establish a model for the future in the UK.

Scope 2

  • We have changed our office occupancy during 2025 which will be reflected in the next reporting period, and we expect to have better data from this.

Scope 3

  • We continue to collaborate with cloud technology providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft, to help our large-scale customers optimise cloud usage to reduce energy consumption.

Board Approval

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 standard, and use the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

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) Standard.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors.

Sam McGregor – Chief Operating Officer – 14th November 2025

Note: Our Carbon Reduction Plans are published within six months of the end of our financial year as specified by the Technical Standard for Completion of Carbon Reduction Plans. There may be occasions when the reporting period of the existing plan has expired but an updated Carbon Reduction Plan has not yet been published.