As a firm, we believe we have a responsibility not only to our clients but also to our community and our planet. We believe in operating our business in a way which will have a positive impact on our clients, our people, and the communities that we live and work within.
We have already implemented a wide variety of policies to reduce the firm’s carbon footprint, including purchasing all our energy from sustainable sources and implementing energy efficiency measures within our offices, but have now taken the next step on our journey to Net Zero.
Led by our internal Environmental Sustainability Group we have initiated a project with the aim of achieving Net Zero no later than 2050. In order to achieve this we have partnered with Auditel, specialist consultants who help organisations become ‘Verified Carbon Neutral’ in a measurable, meaningful and hopefully self-funding way!
What are we doing
- We have produced the Ashtons Legal Environmental Statement
- We have started the process of measuring our ‘Base Line’ to establish our existing carbon footprint. For this we are gathering data for the year 2023/24. The data to be captured falls within three ‘Scopes of Emissions’:
- Scope 1 – Direct Emissions – Things under our control that directly emit Carbon – such as company vehicles, replacement gas for air conditioning units.
- Scope 2 – The amount of Electricity we use in our buildings.
- Scope 3 – The largest and most difficult to measure; Waste from operations, business travel, commuting, and our requirements of our supply chain.