Carbon Reduction Plan Guidance
Notes for Completion
Where an In-Scope Organisation has determined that the measure applies to the procurement, suppliers wishing to bid for that contract are required at the selection stage to submit a Carbon Reduction Plan which details their organisational carbon footprint and confirms their commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050.
Carbon Reduction Plans are to be completed by the bidding supplier entity and must meet the reporting requirements set out in supporting guidance, and include the supplier’s current carbon footprint and its commitment to reducing emissions to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050.
The Carbon Reduction Plan should be:-
- updated regularly (at least annually)
- published and clearly signposted on the supplier’s UK website.
- approved by a director (or equivalent senior leadership) within the supplier’s organisation to demonstrate a clear commitment to emissions reduction at the highest level.
Suppliers may wish to adopt the key objectives of the Carbon Reduction Plan within their strategic plans.
A template for the Carbon Reduction Plan is set out below.
Please complete and publish your Carbon Reduction Plan in accordance with the reporting standard published alongside this PPN.
Committing to Net Zero by 2050
Carbon Reduction Plans focus upon the recording and reporting of Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and introduce additional reporting against a subset of Scope 3 emissions. Please read the ‘Scope Guidance’ section carefully to determine which sources are considered to be in-scope.
Carbon Reduction Plan Template
Navaho Technologies Ltd.
5th January 2023
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Navaho Technologies Ltd is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050
Baseline Emissions Footprint
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.
| Baseline Year (First Reporting Period): 2022 |
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| Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations. |
| This is the first emission footprint and provides a baseline for future targets. |
| Baseline year emissions: 2022 |
| EMISSIONS | TOTAL (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 278.43 t |
| Scope 2 | 3,733 t |
| Scope 3 (Included Sources) |
N/A Airconditioning refill due 2023 |
| Total Emissions | 4011.43 t |
Current Emissions Reporting
| Reporting Year: 2022 |
| EMISSIONS | TOTAL (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 278.43 t |
| Scope 2 | 3,733 t |
| Scope 3 (Included Sources) |
N/A Airconditioning refill due 2023 |
| Total Emissions | 4011.43 t |
Emissions reduction targets and Carbon Reduction Projects
In order to progress towards achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets.
Employee Commuting -to encourage employee car sharing within the two Navaho Offices (Stafford and Minsted), also encouraging electric vehicle use and lobbying office landlords for electric charging points we are set to encourage home working for 2 days per week in Stafford office for applicable employees. We will record the baseline this year 2023 to set targets for 2024. For Air travel to conduct servicing of current clients and attending trade shows, we are moving towards (where feasible) use of electric vehicles for passengers and our newer diesel vans for product transportation, combined with ferry travel - this should see a significant reduction in CO2 when compared to air travel. (current freight via road and ferry is included in the Scope 1 calculations for 2022)
Upstream transportation and distribution - we have partnered with suppliers to ship products directly to client site and perform fitting, where possible and practicable in 2023, rather than shipping from the supplier to our offices, reducing movement of product. This equates to removing an extra 80.9 miles from each product. (We estimate an extra xx miles were covered in 2022 from shipping, so should see a significant reduction with this strategy- but this will depend upon product uptake throughout the upcoming year.)
Navaho offices take part in wastepaper and waste plastic recycling, as well as recycling all product packaging where possible, but this is part of our office agreement, we are looking to increase this to packaging plastics. We also ensure all redundant products are disposed of via WEE disposal.
Baseline work vehicle emissions were using a Euro 5 Diesel vehicle, Navaho has upgraded to a Euro 6 vehicle to reduce CO2 emissions year on year for 2022/23 when comparing to the distance of 62,000 miles covered in 2022. We kept a log of all miles throughout 01/01/22 -31/12/22 to provide reporting baseline.
We cannot yet project carbon emissions reduction as we are at the baseline – 2023 will give us a trajectory for downward emissions that we can build upon.