Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Publication date: August 2025
SafeLives is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050. We will keep this date under review, bringing it forward if possible as our carbon reduction plans develop.
Baseline Emissions Footprint
| Baseline Year: 2022/23 (1 July – 30 June) | ||
| Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations. This baseline represents our first calculation of the carbon footprint of the organisation | ||
| Baseline year emissions (tCO2e): | ||
| Scope 1 | 2.2 | |
| Scope 2 | 2.0 | |
| Scope 3 | 484.5 | |
| Included Scope 3 categories | 1. Purchased goods & services | 182.6 |
| 2. Capital goods | 121.0 | |
| 3. Fuel- and energy-related activities | 0.7¹ | |
| 4.Upstream transportation & distribution | 2.4 | |
| 5. Waste generated in operations | 0.1² | |
| 6. Business travel | 101.6 | |
| 7. Employee commuting | 76.1³ | |
| 9. Downstream transportation & distribution | 0.0⁴ | |
| Total Emissions | 488.7 | |
Reporting Year Emissions Footprint
| Reporting Year: 2023/24 (1 July – 30 June) | ||
| Additional Details relating to the Reporting year Emissions calculations. This baseline represents our first calculation of the carbon footprint of the organisation | ||
| Baseline year emissions (tCO2e): | ||
| Scope 1 | 2.0 | |
| Scope 2 | 1.9 | |
| Scope 3 | 376.7 | |
| Included Scope 3 categories | 1. Purchased goods & services | 109.1 |
| 2. Capital goods | 111.7 | |
| 3. Fuel- and energy-related activities | 0.6⁵ | |
| 4.Upstream transportation & distribution | 2.4 | |
| 5. Waste generated in operations | 0.0⁶ | |
| 6. Business travel | 88.7 | |
| 7. Employee commuting | 64.2⁷ | |
| 9. Downstream transportation & distribution | 0.8⁸ | |
| Total Emissions | 380.6 | |
Emissions reduction targets
The organisation is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. We will keep this date under review, bringing it forward if possible as our carbon reduction plans develop.
Carbon Reduction Projects
Completed Carbon Reduction Initiatives
The following environmental management measures and projects have been completed:
- The organisation achieved Green Small Business Certification in March 2024 and 2025, having developed an environmental policy and comprehensive action plan addressing all of the significant environmental impacts of the business.
- We operate a partial hybrid working model, which reduces emissions from staff commuting.
- Business travel has been reduced through extensive use of video-conferencing.
- Switched office paper source to 100% post-consumer waste recycled.
- Provided our staff with information on environmentally responsible behaviour whilst working remotely to facilitate good practice.
- Implemented a ‘use of transport’ policy to ensure that emissions from business travel are consistently low.
- Take environmental considerations into account when purchasing goods.
- Adopted a Data Retention Policy to ensure that the data held by the company is rationalised on a regular basis, thereby avoiding unnecessary carbon emissions from cloud storage.
Planned Carbon Reduction Initiatives
Our environmental action plan commits us to the implementation of further measures which we anticipate will reduce the carbon intensity of the business, such as:
- Appointing a lead on environmental sustainability within the organisation, with lead responsibility for driving delivery of our environmental policy.
- Reducing waste and increasing levels of recycling.
Declaration and Sign Off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard 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 uses 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 (or equivalent management body).