About

1.Measuring Our Impact

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We complete a full Scope 1, 2 and material Scope 3 carbon footprint every year. Our 2023 baseline and 2024 footprint were both produced through the Net Zero MK programme run by Net Zero Ngage, funded by Milton Keynes City Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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What ourfootprint is telling us

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•    Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are very small. We operate from a serviced office, do not own company vehicles, and our direct fuel use is negligible. Scope 2 (electricity) emissions fell by around 50% between 2023 and2024.

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•    Scope 3 is where it really sits. Around 96% of our footprintis indirect emissions from purchased goods and services, employee commuting, working from home, and business travel. This is typical of a professional services firm, but it is no excuse to ignore.

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•    Our biggest hotspots are people-related. Employee commuting and working from home together account for roughly half of everything we emit. Purchased food and drink, IT services, and supplier-delivered services make upmost of the rest.

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•    Our overall emissions rose between 2023 and 2024. We are not going to dress this up. Our footprint went up by around 5% year-on-year, driven by Scope 3. Part of the increase is explained by our move to a larger office at the end of 2023, which expanded our operational footprint and supported teamgrowth, both of which feed into Scope 3 emissions. That context matters, but it doesn't change the destination: we are currently below the trajectory needed to halve emissions by 2030, and we've adjusted our action plan accordingly. Without focused action on supplier emissions and IT, the trend won't reverse on its own.

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Carbon intensity

We track two intensity measures so we can compare progress as the firm grows:

•    Carbon per pound of revenue

•    Carbon per full-time-equivalent employee

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Intensity per employee improved year-on-year, which suggests our growth is becoming more carbon-efficient, but the absolute number still has to come down.

2. What We're Doing About It

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Some of what follows is already in place. Some is in progress. We've kept the framing honest measures we haven't started yet are described as commitments, not achievements.

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Our workplace

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•    Paperless by default. We operate as a paperless office. Client engagements,internal records, signatures and approvals are handled digitally. Paper is the exception, not the norm.

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•    Flexible and hybrid working. Our team works flexibly, with hybrid arrangements that reduce avoidable commuting. We recognise this transfers some emissions to the home-working category, which is why we treat homeworking emissions seriously rather than pretending they don't exist.

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•    Serviced office, shared infrastructure. We moved to a larger serviced office at the end of 2023 to accommodate the team. Operating from a serviced building means our energy footprint is shared across many tenants, with the building's energy procured at scale by the operator, but the larger space has expanded our share, and that's something we will continue to factor into year-on-year comparisons.

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Our team and culture

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•    A diverse team. We have a deliberately diverse team across gender, background and life experience. We see this as a foundation of long-term resilience and better decision-making, not a tick-box.

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•    Long-term thinking. We are not optimising for a quarterly cycle. The same long-horizon perspective we encourage clients to take, we apply to our own decisions on people, premises and partnerships.

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Our supply chain

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•    Engaging suppliers one mission. Scope 3 is our largest hotspot, and most of it sits with our suppliers. Our current focus is starting that conversation with our largest suppliers and asking what their own net zero credentials and trajectories look like and weighting that into our procurement decisions over time.

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•    Moving toward greener IT. IT and cloud services are a meaningful share of a professional services footprint. We are reviewing providers with a view to shifting toward those with credible net zero commitments. This is an active piece of work in 2026.

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Active commitments

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These are the specific actions on our plan, drawn directly from our 2024 Net Zero action plan:

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•    Engage with our largest suppliers to understand their net zero positions and use this as part of our supplier review process.

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•    Move to a green IT provider under review during 2026.

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•    Survey our team on commuting patterns, working-from-home energy choices, and barriers to lower-carbon options, and use the results to shape practical support (rather than top-down policy).

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•    Continue annual carbon footprint measurement, with year-on-year comparison published on this page.

3. Where We're Heading

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We support the UK's net zero by 2050 target and the wider science-based ambition of halving emissions by 2030. We have not yet made a formal Science Based Targets commitment. We will revisit that decision once we have a clear view of how our supplier engagement and IT transition affect Scope3, committing to a target without a credible path to meet it would be the wrong order of operations.

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In the meantime, we work to the same standard we recommend to clients: measure honestly, prioritise the biggest hotspots, act on what's in our control, and report progress openly.

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4.Accountability

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Our sustainability work is led by Prachi Joshi, our ESG Service Lead. Annual carbon foot printing and quality assurance is provided independently through Net Zero Ngage, with the report published as part of the Net Zero MK programme funded by Milton Keynes City Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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Our most recent footprint, methodology and full results are summarised in our annual Net Zero report, which we are happy to share with clients, suppliers or partners on request.

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Contact: pjoshi@alexanderrosse.co.uk