GE3s on way to become carbon neutral

Ge3s is a sustainability consultancy having operations in the middle East and India. While providing our services we try to minimize our negative environmental impacts to the extent possible. We are aware about the issue of global warming and climate change and how our carbon footprint can help in limiting the effects. As a first step, we undertook a study to estimate our carbon footprint about couple of years ago and bow we aim to become carbon neutral. We identified our greenhouse gas emission hot spots. the two emission sources that were found to be significant included emissions from electricity consumption and emissions from company-owned and leased vehicles. This covered scope one, scope two and scope three emissions for our carbon footprint. The scope emissions were from combustion of fuel in company-owned vehicles. The scope two emissions were from electricity consumption at our offices. The scope three emissions were from combustion of fuel in leased vehicles.

Once we identified the significant impact of our operations it was followed by setting up  strategy to continuously monitor our emissions and the carbon footprint. It was then followed by management of the same. In order to reduce our emissions, we undertook several steps. Some if these are  provided below:

1. We moved our offices to Masdar city in Abu Dhabi. Masdar city has huge installation of solar power. A large part of the electricity consumption at Masdar is from renewable energy. This significantly reduces emissions from scope 2 of our carbon footprint.

2. Inducting vehicles with lower emissions to our fleet. Initially, most of the vehicles that the company had were SUVs as is the trend in UAE. Later on we purchased 2 sedans of less than 2000 cc engine so that fuel consumption is reduced. Due to reduced fuel consumption, the greenhouse gas emission goes down and so does our carbon footprint.

Our next goal is to become carbon neutral by offsetting unavoidable emissions. We are looking at opportunities to offset through united nations approved certified emission reductions.

By the end of the year 2019, we expect to become completely carbon neutral, this would have been achieved by managing our emission, it was possible also due to emissions we reduced and also by offsetting the emissions which could not be reduced. we believe that every private organization takes similar action then we can definitely meet Paris agreement targets. The responsibility of fighting against global warming and climate change has to be shared by the individual private companies as well as  government. Carbon neutral world can definitely work in achieving our target.