Kagool is committed to achieving carbon Net Zero by 2030.

Baseline Year: November 2020 - November 2021

Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations

Kagool have not previously assessed or reported emissions, and as such are now using our first reporting period as our Baseline.

In 2020, most Kagool staff moved to Work From Home. Around 20% of staff commute to the office daily, with 80% working from home. As we have 198 Full Time Employees, this means 35 will be working in the office and 163 working from home each day on average. We have instituted a policy to use public transport where possible, which has resulted in only 20% of staff commuting to the office using cars. We have used the GHG Protocols Average Data Method of calculating their commuting emissions.

It is very difficult to exactly quantify emissions for staff working from home, who all work in different environments with different emission levels. Heating, lighting, and electricity usage for homeworkers will vary greatly to the point where we cannot with confidence provide this information. As such, we have liaised with Creative Carbon Scotland, who have advised that the average annual carbon footprint from one full time employee working from home in the UK in 2020 was 146kgCO2e. We have used this figure for our staff for Scope 3 emissions.

Throughout this 12-month period, all services were delivered remotely with no travel to client sites. This means that the only emissions resultant from service delivery were electricity costs contained in our reported Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions. As such, our calculated Scope 1 (Direct) emissions were 0.00.

Please see Figure 2 for a full breakdown of what information was calculated for each Scope.

Baseline year emissions: 2020-2021

carbon reduction projects

Remote working

We decided to embed ourselves remotely wherever possible for service delivery. Due to the COVID pandemic, all our customers over this reporting period were happy to comply with this. This resulted in Scope 1 and 2 emissions being reduced significantly.

Office relocation

We recently relocated our office to One Friargate in Coventry. This building is close to city centre and right next to the train station and bus interchange, which has enabled better use of public transport. As a result, we now have 80% of staff commuting to the office via public transport instead of commuting via car.

Heatline scheme

The Friargate building is one of a few buildings which is part of the Heatline Scheme, a low-carbon district heating network for the city centre. Council buildings are heated via 6.6km of buried pipes which bring waste heat from the Waste to Energy plant to the city centre. This is low carbon energy supply option for new developments such as the building we’re in. Overall savings of approximately 1,100 tCO2per year for the entire Heatline scheme compared to the emissions that would result from the connected buildings using conventional gas boilers.

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.