Environmental Policy

Statement
Our mission is to accelerate the building of a sustainable way of life, taking a positive, solutions orientated approach.

Our Environmental Policy expresses our company’s commitment to achieving this aim.

Through managing the environmental impacts or our business, we aim to inspire our partners and suppliers and encourage them to reduce their own adverse environmental impacts.

Impacts
Our most significant adverse environmental impacts are:

• Emissions to atmosphere from the use of carbon based energy in offices and fuel in transport
• Consumption or resources by our use of energy, raw materials, offices supplies and furniture
• Production of waste materials
• The environmental performance of our suppliers

Objectives

• Establish carbon neutral operations through improved energy efficiency, purchase of renewable energy supply and carbon sequestration
• Minimise resource consumption and purchase goods which have the least environmental impact throughout their lifecycle
• Reduce the waste at source wherever practicable and re-use the recycle remaining waste
• Assess and makes purchasing decision on the basis of product and supplier environmental performance
• Comply with relevant legislative and regulatory requirements, applying the best available techniques

Commitment
To deliver our Environmental Policy, we make the following commitments

• Continually improve our environmental performance, including prevention of pollution
• Use our resources, including research, development and capital to meet this commitment in a manner the reinforces our activities
• Measure our progress in pursuing our Policy and report annually to our stakeholders