Environmental footprint

Our office was renovated in late 2021, and updated with modern energy-efficient solutions throughout. All windows were replaced (old windows were sent for recycling) and the building had additional Insulation installed. We have added numerous timers which are turning off our most energy-consuming amenities, as well as movement sensors on all floors and toilets. LED lighting is a standard for all lamps at the office. 

However, we are sure we can do more, especially in daily purchases. Before buying new we will evaluate if we can reduce or reuse. We want to advocate for the same approach in all our purchases, no matter if it is office supplies, merchandise or furniture.

We consider:

• To be more aware of improper consumption by actively monitoring our commodities

• Prioritize low-energy solutions when buying office supplies and hardware.

Our main aim 2024:

• We establish a procurement policy based on a waste hierarchy, emphasizing the principles of rethinking, reducing, reusing, or recycling before making any purchase.

Food is a core offering to our employees and an important aspect of our day at the office. We want to offer healthy and nutritious food with a reasonably low carbon footprint. From H2 2023, we have already decided to remove beef and lamb at lunch.

Food waste

Roughly a third of the world’s food is wasted, that’s about 1.3 billion tons a year. And we are not better than most companies. We can do more to reduce our food waste and find alternatives to throw out what we do not consume.

We consider:

• Offer healthy and nutritious food to our employees, with a focus on local produce and low carbon footprint.

• Audit our external partners in food and beverage on sustainable parameters

• Communicate environmental footprint in the food we offer, to give the employees an individual choice.

• Measure nutrition and our carbon footprint in our food offerings.

Our main aim 2024:

• Provide employees with the option to take any remaining lunch home with them.

We are a national based office, located in the center of Copenhagen. We travel by bike or train whenever we can. We provide bikes for employees to use for meetings in town and we encourage employees to choose EV taxis for meetings otherwise not accessible by bike or train. 

Travel by plane is necessary only when attending conferences or meetings in countries not reasonably close to Denmark. Hotel stays can be associated with significant emissions depending on the type of hotel, rating and room size.

We are aware that the price of offsetting 1 ton of CO2 is approximately 51 dollars . So clicking “yes” to a 6-dollar offset on a roundtrip across the Atlantic doesn’t solve anything. We refuse to take this market-based approach. To make a real difference in carbon emissions, the offsetting should provide an additional benefit that would not have occurred without money from the carbon offset. Let's be honest: Offsetting is also not a viable alternative to regulatory initiative. But it's better than doing nothing at all.

We consider:

• Leaving the smallest carbon footprint when meeting with clients and partners or attending conferences abroad. 

• Use of company bikes, EV transportation, or train whenever possible

Our main aim 2024:

• To provide clear guidelines for company travel and hotel selection.

• We define how to properly offset our CO2 emissions when we travel by plane

We have used the Normative’s Carbon accounting tool to find out what our past 3 years' emissions accumulate to and how they are divided into scopes 1, 2, and 3..

The Normative emissions calculator is based on all our company costs, except salary expenses. The calculation is based on a transaction: the amount of how much is being purchased, and the activity, what is being purchased. These two factors then calculate the emission level based on financial cost.