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Safeguarding our environment

We care about our environmental impact

ENVIRONMENT

As a UK insurer, our environmental impacts are small in comparison to many other businesses

Regardless, we've seen unprecedented coverage of the damage humans are inflicting on the planet. 

We have a duty to treat our impact on the environment seriously and we've taken strides to:

  • reduce our carbon footprint
  • manage our waste
  • use less energy

Carbon emissions per employee

2019 2018 
Energy usage* 
(tonnes CO2 equivalent per employee)
 0.73 1.00
Business travel*
(tonnes CO2 equivalent per employee)
 0.17 0.16
Waste**
(tonnes)		 275 374
Recycling**
(as a % of overall waste)		 94% 93%

2019 2018 
Energy usage* 
(tonnes CO2 equivalent per employee)
 0.73 1.00
Business travel*
(tonnes CO2 equivalent per employee)
 0.17 0.16
Waste**
(tonnes)		 275 374
Recycling**
(as a % of overall waste)		 94% 93%

*We have been able to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions per employee from 1.16CO2 to 0.90CO2. This has been achieved by exiting properties as we restructured the business and small initiatives such as installing a new heating system and using fewer desk fans.

**The emissions we have reported are for the continuing business only, prior periods have been restated to reflect this.

carbon footprint

In 2019 we partnered with Shred-it

  • They've provided us with new confidential waste consoles which comply with British Standards.
  • They support us to safeguard, manage and understand how to better store and dispose of our confidential information. 
  • The paper that Shred-it produces from recycling uses less energy, water and air pollution compared to creating new paper.

Documents

Safeguarding our environment information can be found in our Annual Report