Taking The Environment Personally - Biggart Baillie becomes a carbon neutral law firm.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Every organisation contributes to carbon dioxide emissions through their day-to-day operations and the prevailing scientific consensus is that increasing levels of CO2 emissions are causing climate change, and that this is potentially the most serious threat facing the world today.
Biggart Baillie is playing its part in reducing CO2 emissions by becoming a carbon neutral law firm from 1st January 2008.
This goal has been achieved through reducing overall energy use, improving recycling facilities, sourcing ‘greener’ products and services and offsetting the remaining 330 tonnes of CO2 emissions via a Scottish carbon reduction project.
The Biggart Baillie ‘carbon footprint’ (the mass of CO2 emissions generated by the firm) was independently measured by Argyll International by assessing energy usage, business travel, and all components of the firm’s operations that consume power or generate waste and other by-products.
Derek Ellery, Managing Partner of Biggart Baillie commented:
“It is very exciting that Biggart Baillie has decided to take a leading position on the environment. We believe that if more organisations were as environmentally aware, we could make a serious impact on the issues of climate change that we face today”.
In order to neutralise the unavoidable CO2 produced by Biggart Baillie’s activities, the firm is supporting an offset project with Argyll International to plant native trees in Scotland, which will absorb over the project life cycle, the Biggart Baillie Carbon Footprint of 330 tonnes of CO2 under the Voluntary Carbon Standard, Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) Programme. Looking to the future, Biggart Baillie, as part of its wider Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, will continue to introduce new initiatives to further reduce its emissions.