Cairn’s Carbon Reduction Plan 2025 shows reduced carbon emissions

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Cairn Technology has published its Carbon Reduction Plan 2025, showing decreases in carbon emissions for both Scope 1 and Scope 2 figures.

Scope 1 emissions – 100% offset

The reduction in Scope 1 emissions is due to changing more of our vehicle fleet to hybrid cars, so that our field-based consultants are travelling in a way that is more environmentally friendly.

Our Scope 1 environmental management objective, which began in 2023, remains to increase the number of lower emitting transport types year on year, whenever possible.

In addition, we have offset all of our Scope 1 emissions for 2025 by continuing to invest in the Carbon Footprint UK Tree Planting Scheme, supporting both carbon capture and environmental biodiversity.

Commitment to Scope 2 emissions reduction

Our Scope 2 carbon emission total also saw a small decrease from 2024, reflecting our effort to be mindful of our consumption, and our drive to be more energy efficient.

Our aim is to further reduce our Scope 2 emissions in 2026 by purchasing our electricity from renewable sources. The end of a fixed supplier contract in 2026 will allow us to implement this important change.

Scope 3 emissions reduced for Category 4

Overall, we have seen a modest increase in our Scope 3 emissions in our 2025 Carbon Reduction Plan.

In particular, our category 9 total has increased by 18%. This is due, in part to an 8% increase in the sales of our absorbent mat products, which are shipped from our EU manufacturing base.

However, we succeeded in reducing our category 4 emissions total compared to our 2024 figures, by consolidating supply shipments wherever possible.

In addition, we have continued to make efforts to reduce other sources of carbon emissions in Scope 3, including:

  • reducing employee commuting with a hybrid working-from-home approach,
  • recycling as much waste generated from our office and warehouse space as possible, such as reusing packaging in our warehouse where appropriate, and
  • encouraging our sales team to conduct business meetings with clients virtually where possible.

Find out more about our Carbon Reduction Plan 2025 Report

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Cairn’s Carbon Reduction Plan 2024 reduces Scope 1 emissions to zero

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Cairn Technology has released its Carbon Reduction Plan for 2024, showing a negligible 2.6% increase in its overall carbon equivalent emissions, despite a significant increase in business activities.

What’s more, it has also reduced its Scope 1 carbon emissions to zero.

All of the above has been achieved through a combination of insetting and offsetting approaches.

Scope 1 Insetting & Offsetting Measures

In terms of insetting, our move to having more hybrid and electric vehicles for our field-based team of consultants has continued to have a positive impact on minimising Scope 1 carbon emissions from our company vehicles.

This is reflected in the fact that we have only seen a 17.5% increase in our Scope 1 emissions in 2024, despite our field-based consultants travelling 22.7% more miles than in 2023.

That said, the short-term goal for our carbon reduction journey outlined in our 2023 Carbon Reduction Plan was to bring our Scope 1 net carbon emissions down to zero for 2024.

To achieve this, we have used carbon offsetting, by investing in the Carbon FootprintTM UK Tree Planting Scheme.

This scheme saw 85,000 native broadleaf trees planted in the UK over 2024, across 27 different species.

Our funding will help support the planting of trees in the Yorkshire and Humber region in school locations, helping to educate children and support wildlife habitats, whilst sequestering carbon emissions.

Scope 3 Insetting Measures

Carbon emission insetting also had a positive impact on our Scope 3 emissions total, through the continued use of our hybrid working model and consolidation of product deliveries, wherever possible.

These measures ensured that we only saw an increase of 4.19% in Scope 3 emissions from 2023 to 2024, despite the turnover of the business increasing by 6.3% in the same period.

Sharon Evans, Sales & Marketing Manager of Cairn Technology says: “We recognise how important it is to support our NHS and private hospital clients in their journey towards Net Zero.

“For this reason, our Carbon Reduction Leadership Team is drawn from across sales, marketing, logistics and finance to ensure a truly business-wide focus on minimising our carbon footprint within the company.

“For 2025, our eye is already on further opportunities for carbon insetting and offsetting to ensure that our carbon equivalent emissions are kept to a minimum as our business activities continue to grow.”

See our Carbon Reduction Plan 2024

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