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Carbon accounting

Recognising that Phoenix Design Aid’s main
carbon impact is its CO emissions, carbon WE USE THE REPORT TO
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accounting is another way in which Phoenix MONITOR OUR EMISSIONS
Design Aid is working to reduce its energy
and carbon footprint. Phoenix Design Aid AND TO SEE IF WE REACH
compiles an annual carbon accounting report
that provides an overview of the company’s THE GOALS WE HAVE SET.
greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity, Dennis Lundoe Nielsen, CEO of Phoenix Design Aid.
heating, waste and business travel.

The table to the right provides a snapshot of
Phoenix Design Aid’s CO emissions for the last
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four years. It shows that the primary emissions
source is travel, a significant part of this
being intercontinental flight trips, while office
electricity and heat consumption, together
with waste, play a minor role. Phoenix Design Aid’s CO emissions
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Phoenix Design Aid’s latest energy and climate
accounting shows an emission increase of 2018 2019 2020 2021
4 tons of CO from 2020 to 2021. Although
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the company saw a significant reduction in Heating 0.4 tons CO 2 0.3 tons CO 2 0.4 tons CO 2 0.9 tons CO 2
emissions due to limits on travel during the
Electricity 3.3 tons CO 2.8 tons CO 2.1 tons CO 1.5 tons CO
pandemic, with restrictions easing in 2021 2 2 2 2
CO emissions from travel have increased Travel 23.6 tons CO 2 30.8 tons CO 2 * 9.5 tons CO 2 * 13.0 tons CO 2
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again. But even before the pandemic, Phoenix Waste 2.4 tons CO 2.2 tons CO 2.2 tons CO 2.8 tons CO
Design Aid had decided to actively reduce 2 2 2 2
Total tons CO 29.7 tons CO 36.1 tons CO * 14.2 tons CO * 18.2 tons CO
its travel-related CO emissions by replacing 2 2 2 2 2
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international face-to-face business meetings *Due to changes in calculation, the numbers have changed/increased compared to the
with online conference meetings where travel numbers for 2019 and 2020 presented in previous sustainability reports.
practical to do so. It can now progress
this post COVID-19, having had positive
experiences with online meetings in 2020
and 2021, and the broad aim is to hold
50 per cent of the company’s meetings online.

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