Environmental policy
Overview
Agile Collective acknowledges that our activities have an impact on our environment, both locally and globally. We will aim to reduce any negative impacts we have and build a more sustainable business. Further to this, we actively encourage other organisations to acknowledge their environmental impact and only work with organisations who demonstrate a clear environmental policy. We will adhere to the following principles:
- Understand and measure our environmental impacts
- Act on ways we set out to reduce negative impacts
- Educate each other and discuss these issues
Global issues
Man-made climate change causing global warming is a serious and undisputed issue. One of the biggest factors in global climate change is the emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity. Accurately calculating the emissions linked with specific activities is a complex and changing science, which we intend to review and assess on an annual basis and amend our environmental policy accordingly.
Local issues
We impact our local environment through our use of resources, energy, travel, waste and require equipment and consumables which can damage the environment.
Tech
As a tech company we recognise that the biggest impact is in the choices we make when designing, developing and delivering our services.
Impact: Emissions produced in the generation of electricity for servers
Mitigation: Use, and recommend to our clients, hosting suppliers that use 100% green energy
Impact: Emissions produced in the generation of electricity for end user devices
Mitigation:
- Monitoring the page size of our clients sites is one of our performance benchmarks
- We endeavour to minimise our usage of unnecessary Javascript and CSS
- We use lazy loading and responsive images wherever possible
Travel
Impact: Emissions produced by home to work travel
Mitigation: Encourage low carbon commuting, including having a cyclescheme
Impact: Emissions produced by business travel
Mitigation:
- Agile Collective does not pay for domestic flights
- For travel within mainland UK and to/from European destinations, rail, car or coach are the preferred modes of travel over air. Proposed exceptions to this should be raised for wider discussion.
- Assess necessity for all business trips
- Preference for accommodation with strong environmental credentials
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