Our Corporate Social Responsibility

Combatting climate change and sustainability with Gaia

The goal of the Gaia network is to come together, share ideas, innovate and collaborate, to accelerate climate change at an industry and societal level.

We will bring strong female leaders together to drive and influence change in some of the largest organisations and employers across the UK, meeting quarterly to develop strategies to combat climate change and sustainability.

A sustainable business is essential to the economy and society. Together we can shift awareness into action, by reducing emissions and educating future generations to deliver sustainable revenues for our economy.

Gaia is influenced by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.

ABOUT GAIA

Project One is proud to have formally committed to the UN Race to Zero campaign and signed up to the UK Government sponsored SME Climate Hub.

Along with over 6,000 other SME’s around the world, we are working towards our goal of halving our carbon emissions by 2030, or sooner and becoming Net Zero Carbon by 2050. We look forward to sharing our story as we set our targets and measure our progress, as well as helping other organisations on their journey, making real change happen to make a real difference to our planet.

We have established five key guiding principles to anchor our internal sustainability efforts going forwards:

Offsetting is a last resort; we will do everything we can to reduce our footprint first. For example, we have reduced our CO2e by moving from a general municipal waste collection system where most of our waste went to landfill to full waste recycling through a carbon neutral service provider.
We will be sustainable by design; considering sustainability in all new buying decisions and changes. In head office, motion sensor lighting ensures that lights only come on in portions of the office in use; they also have sensors that capture the amount of light entering the building from the floor to ceiling windows and adjust lighting accordingly.
We challenge the status quo; challenging our people and our customers to work differently. We are sharing tips with colleagues on how to work more sustainably from home – switching off monitors and shutting laptops down at night. Working with our customers, we are keen to explore new ways to reduce C02e whilst delivering the same level of service, for example applying travel quotas or a carbon tax to a programme.
Our people are paramount; we will invest in our people, educating and enabling them to think and behave differently. In 2023, we launched our new sustainability app, OnHand, to provide colleagues with instant access to information on sustainability and ways to reduce personal C02e and increase social value.
We believe in holistic sustainability; where sustainability is part of a balanced scorecard of operational performance metrics for our business. To provide visibility and enable informed decision-making, we built a sustainability dashboard; we will use this to identify and provide focus on areas for improvement.

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