LMS is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
LMS is in the early stages of our Net Zero journey; we are gathering and analysing data year on year and building an ambitious and practical decarbonisation strategy and assessing what Net Zero means to us.
LMS Security is a fully Independent, privately owned, internationally recognised and accredited Security Consultancy; owned and built by Electronic and Physical Security Specialists to support and guide organisations through the pitfalls, challenges and the opportunities associated with Security Management. We have one small central office which houses 10% of our workforce, the remaining 90% of our workforce are home-based, an average of 15% of the total employee time is spent on client sites (requiring the need for business travel).
Our mission is to continually take action to innovatively maintain our Zero scope 1 emissions and where this is not possible, control the scope 1 whilst also reducing our scope 2 and scope 3 emissions. We are setting high cultural standards across the organisation for individual responsibility for the reduction and offset of residual emissions.
Baseline Year: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2022
Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations and our ongoing data collection.
We acknowledge that the data gathered does not benefit from the knowledge and experience of environmental consultants. We intend to investigate working with such specialists during 2023-2024. Working together we hope these specialists will be able to verify our calculations, provide robust measures for our senior leadership team to review, along with strategies for a SME such as LMS to use as part of our reduction plan.
In 2022-2023 our business travel begins to increase with the working world emerging from COVID-19. We expect this to continue to rise as LMS continues to grow in line with our business strategy.
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EMISSIONS
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TOTAL (tCO2e)
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0**
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0.66
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Scope 3* (Upstream Transportation and Distribution, Business Travel, and Employee Commuting)
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10.71
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11.37
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*Included sources: Business Travel, Employee Working From Home, Fuel- and Energy Related Activities.
** At Baseline LMS did not have a central office and do not use or consume Fuels, Bioenergy or Refrigerant & other as defined https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting . LMS do not own delivery vehicles. The company owned passenger vehicles are fully electric, have zero SECR kWh conversions and report emission under scope 2 as directed.
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EMISSIONS
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TOTAL (tCO2e)
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Scope 1
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0**
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Scope 2
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1.06
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Scope 3*
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21.08
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Total Emissions
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22.4
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*Included sources: Business Travel, Employee Working From Home, Fuel- and Energy Related Activities.
** LMS lease one small central managed office space and are not provided with breakdowns of fuels consumed as per https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting . LMS do not own delivery vehicles. The company owned passenger vehicles are fully electric, have zero SECR kWh conversions and report emission under scope 2 as directed
LMS continues to grow and therefore in the short term, total emissions are likely to increase while the organisation is in this phase of development. To help us stay on track for Net Zero by 2050 and to mitigate for this growth, we are focusing on emissions per employee. To achieve Net Zero by 2050, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets:
The following environmental management measures and projects have been completed or implemented since the 2022/23.
LMS are reviewing the possibility of applying for ISO 14001 certification supported by an environmental management system and ISO 50001 certification supported by an energy management system. We have been reviewing all management system documents and have updated many policies and procedures to reflect our commitment to Net Zero. We are also working on improving the data quality for our annual reviews, as such we will be investigating the opportunity to work with Environmental Consultants during 2023-2024 to help us set better targets for our continual improvement.
Including:
Continue to encourage all staff to switch energy tariff to 100% renewable energy.
Recognising that we still have work to do to reduce our emissions footprint we have identified the following areas for future actions to advance toward our goal of becoming an emission free company:
Although we are unable to eliminate certain emissions at this time, we are investigating the purchase of carbon credits equivalent to the emissions we are not yet able to eliminate. These credits will finance much needed climate mitigation action and support the global transition to a zero carbon future. Woodland Carbon for Businesses – Woodland Trust , Home | Switch2Zero
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol Corporate Standard1 and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have also been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).
Signed on behalf of the Supplier:
Date: July 2023.
1 Corporate Standard | Greenhouse Gas Protocol (ghgprotocol.org)
2 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting
3 Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard | Greenhouse Gas Protocol (ghgprotocol.org)
4 Woodland Carbon for Businesses – Woodland Trust
6 ESOS (energy savings opportunity scheme) in Yorkshire (greengain.co.uk)
