Effective Date: 1 April 2025
At Carbon Sense, environmental sustainability is at the heart of who we are and what we do. As a UK-based environmental consultancy, we recognise that our responsibility extends beyond compliance, it is about leadership, continuous improvement, and ensuring that every decision we make supports a thriving, low-carbon future.
We embed the principle of ‘Nature in the Boardroom’, ensuring that environmental and social factors are considered alongside financial performance in all strategic and operational decisions. Sustainability is not a separate agenda; it is integral to our culture, our client work, and our long-term business success.
Carbon Sense is committed to measuring, managing, and reducing its environmental impact while helping others do the same. Our Sustainability Policy underpins this commitment and sets out clear objectives to protect natural resources, minimise waste, and accelerate progress toward a Net Zero economy.
Our key actions and commitments:
By embedding sustainability into every aspect of our operations, Carbon Sense aims to demonstrate that responsible business is good business, driving positive environmental outcomes while delivering value for our clients, communities, and future generations.
At Carbon Sense, we believe in leading by example. Our Carbon Footprint Report provides a transparent view of our operational emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, helping us understand where our environmental impact lies and how we can most effectively reduce it.
Our Carbon Reduction Plan sets out clear, measurable actions to cut emissions year-on-year through smarter energy use, low-carbon travel, responsible procurement, and digital efficiency. We are committed to achieving Net Zero by 2030, and supporting our clients to do the same through practical, data-driven carbon management.
Our Offsetting Strategy 2025/2026
At Carbon Sense, we follow a reduction first approach. We measure our impact accurately, take clear steps to cut emissions, and only use offsets to balance what we cannot yet eliminate. This year, we have gone further by removing more carbon than we emit, reflecting our commitment to genuine climate responsibility. We are also proud to continue our support for Plant One, a Community Interest Company restoring native woodland across Cornwall and Devon. Their work expands local tree cover, rebuilds habitats, improves biodiversity and strengthens natural resilience across the region.
Our support for Plant One reflects our commitment not only to global climate action but also to local nature recovery and community benefit.
Our 2024/2025 Footprint Removal Commitment
Our operational carbon footprint for 2024/2025 is 9.3tCO₂e. and to demonstrate meaningful leadership, we have chosen to remove over double our emissions, officially offsetting 20tCO₂e through a high-quality, verified nature-based project. This positions Carbon Sense as a net-positive organisation, contributing more to global carbon removal than we generate.
For 2024/25 we selected the Reforestation Grouped Project Norteak (Nicaragua), a verified nature-based project focused on restoring forest landscapes and removing carbon through long-term tree growth and regeneration.
Norteak Group is a sustainable forestry initiative in Nicaragua managing over 3,500 hectares across reforested and protected areas. It focuses on teak and native-species plantations to capture carbon, restore degraded land, and supply sustainably managed timber, while protecting 120 hectares of rainforest and supporting biodiversity through FSC , VERRA and CCB-certified practices.
Beyond timber-and-carbon, Norteak plays a pivotal role in local communities, training hundreds of workers, creating stable employment, investing in infrastructure, and promoting inclusive, sustainable development in rural regions. Projects such as these are a proven method to deliver positive outcomes for communities, while also
protecting or restoring ecosystem functioning and supporting
biodiversity.
By supporting this project, we are contributing to:
This project provides real, permanent carbon removal, aligned with best-practice offsetting principles.
