Our environment

When discussing environmental issues it is so hard to avoid platitudes – or the ‘blah blah blah’ as Greta Thunberg so eloquently puts it. But I passionately believe that it is critical for us all, as a business and as individuals, to engage with the crisis of climate change by making positive changes to reduce carbon emissions and contributing, in our small way, to ensuring we meet the targets set out in the Paris agreement. If great change comes about as the sum of multiple tiny adjustments, then encouraging our people to cycle to work occasionally or to eliminate their use of single-use plastics is as mission-critical as organisational change. We need to be vigilant to ensure that any actions we take are effective, meaningful and sustainable. On that front, over the next year I will be looking at how we can reduce our reliance on carbon offsetting and focus in the future on decreasing carbon more directly instead.”