Carbon Reduction Plan
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Brightwake Limited who also trades as Advancis Medical, Advancis Surgical and Advancis Veterinary is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2030.
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.
Current Emissions Reporting
Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, Brightwake are committed to setting the following targets:
Scope 1 and 2
• Eliminate the use of gas and switch to electrical consumption instead, this should make a reduction of 25%.
• Switching the current 3 diesel company vehicles to petrol-hybrid should see a reduction of 55%. We aim to purchase these by the end of the financial year 2023/24.
• Brightwake have replaced approximately 60% of all lighting across the business to LED lighting. We will continue to replace the remaining 40% by end of March 2024. We believe that lighting contributes to 20% of all energy used and changing the lighting to LED should save 90% of that total energy.
Scope 3
• Carbon impact is not solely the responsibility of the senior leadership team but extends to all stakeholders across the company. Forming engagement with all stakeholders will give everyone an idea of how we can reduce carbon emissions. As part of that engagement we plan to introduce a cycle to work scheme. Of the 212 current employees, 84 live in the Ashfield area (closest to
Brightwake) - if we can encourage at least 40 people to join the scheme we would see a 2.7% reduction in carbon emissions in commuting. This has worked in the past (2012) with 20 people taking part.
• We estimate that 15% of those employees who commute to Brightwake on a daily basis will switch to a medium hybrid car in the next 12 months, saving approximately 34% carbon.
• When the international sales team across the group renew their vehicles, they will be encouraged to switch from diesel cars to hybrids, contributing to a saving of 35% in carbon emissions on those vehicles if we see 20% of employees switch.
We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 174tCO²e by 2026/27. This is a reduction of 63% from 2022/23 and the projection is to reach net zero carbon by 2030. It is envisaged that carbon offsetting or technology such as carbon capture and storage will be deployed to achieve the difference between actual and net zero carbon.
Carbon Reduction Projects
Since our baseline year we have been able to implement the following projects
• Switch to 100% renewable energy.
• Removed the use of natural gas
• Cycle to work scheme
Future Carbon Reduction Initiatives
We are in the process of creating a roadmap for scope 3 emissions:
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 standard₁ and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting₂.
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) Standard₃.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).
Stephen Cotton
Managing Director
3rd April 2023
₁ https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard
₂ https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-companyreporting
₃ https://ghgprotocol.org/standards/scope-3-standard