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

Want to know more? Just click here for our full Carbon Reduction Plan Report for 2025