Carbon Reduction Plan
Supplier name: Huggg Limited. Calculation date: 05 May 2025. Renewal date: April 2026.
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Huggg is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2040.
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: 1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021 | |
| Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations. | |
Huggg has used Carbon Footprint Ltd’s online carbon calculator on www.carbonfootprint.com to calculate its carbon footprint for the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. The calculation uses the 2021 emission factors developed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Department for Business, Environment & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for reporting emissions. The data input into the calculator was independently verified by Carbon Footprint Ltd. In the baseline assessment, Huggg Limited have captured emissions for serviced office energy, home working, business travel, employee commuting and waste production. Emissions from inbound and outbound freight logistics were considered but are outside of Huggg Limited operations due to not having any operational or financial control over the logistics elements and delivery of products to customers. |
| Baseline year emissions: | |
| Emissions | Total (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 0.65 |
| Scope 2 | 1.10 |
| Scope 3 (Included Sources) | 12.70 |
| Total Emissions | 14.45 |
| Emissions per employee | 2.41 |
Current Emissions Reporting
| Latest Year: 1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025 | |
| Emissions | Total (tCO2e) |
| Scope 1 | 0 |
| Scope 2 | 0 |
| Scope 3 (Included Sources) | 3.63 |
| Total Emissions | 3.63 |
| Emissions per employee | 0.27 |
As we are all fully remote and have been for over a year, we report our employees as homeworkers. The homeworking electricity and gas consumption per homeworker is accounted for in Scope 3. In addition, as we have no company owned cars, and as a result, our Scope 1 and Scope 2 are both 0.
To calculate our electricity usage when we hold office space, we use 226 kWh/m2 and 178 kWh/m2 for our gas usage; calculation provided by the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) for an air-conditioned office.
Emissions reduction targets
Huggg Limited’s carbon emissions assessment for April 2024 to March 2025 indicates a decrease in emissions as remote working continues to be prominent and also a leaner team therefore much less travel. We are recommitting to sustainability with several initiatives.
We continue progress towards achieving Net Zero by 2040, and have adopted the following carbon reduction targets. We have kept the whole team face to face meetings minimal and all team members still use public transport for business travel to help decrease reliance on travel via personal vehicles and taxis. A very high percentage of our work travel is public transport, with taxis being taken only in exceptional cases. Employee owned cars have been used on a handful of occasions.
We will encourage remote working ensuring all team members have solid infrastructure to do this. We include environmental responsibility and participation in green initiatives during our company wide meet ups. We always strive to minimise unnecessary travel. We held no office space during this most recent period, we were entirely remote.
We are conscious of sustainable packing and logistics when onboarding suppliers. Huggg is dedicated to maintaining a low carbon footprint and aims to reduce it further in the next period and keep it relatively low in relation to team size. We project that carbon emissions will decrease slightly or remain the same over the next year, as all Huggg team members continue to work remotely and only travel when needed.
Carbon Reduction Projects
Huggg Limited completed its baseline carbon emissions assessment in June 2022. These emissions will set a baseline for which all future carbon emissions assessments will be compared to. We have made reductions in some areas but have seen other areas increase. We will look to improve these areas over the next reporting period using the plans stated above.
We have seen a reduction in emissions per employee each year since we began assessments, and we continue to encourage our team members to choose renewable energy providers at home. In the future, we intend to incentivise this as well as just encourage. We are also interested in carbon offsetting. We have recently moved to less frequent whole team meetings but with an overnight stay in between two days to reduce travel emissions. Each year we find ways to continue reducing our carbon footprint and keep progressing towards net zero.
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 standard4 and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting5.
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) Standard6.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).
Signed on behalf of the Supplier:
Paul Wickers
CEO, Huggg
05/05/2025