We’re committed to being a sustainable, positive-impact company.
Target & impact
One of our core company values is to ‘leave it better than you found it’, and this applies to people and the planet as much as our design work.
This isn’t just slogans, it’s important to us and we know it’s important to our clients too.
Our evidence-based design approach is purposefully lightweight to minimise bloat, debt and carbon footprint.
Our target
Our impact
2020: 4 tonnes (removed)
2021: 53 tonnes (removed)
2022: 41 tonnes (removed)
2023: 26 tonnes (removal pending)
2024: Currently emitting...
Net zero
Considering the climare and environmental emergecy, we're proud to have joined Tech Zero and Design Declares – communities of design and tech companies joining forces to make faster progress to net zero.
Our Tech Zero membership means we’ve committed to measuring and publishing our scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions. We’ll also publish details of our plans to meet our target and regular updates here to track our progress.
Carbon reduction plan
Set net zero target
Remove as much CO2 from the atmosphere as we emit
Reduce our emissions as far as possible
Remove all the carbon we’ve ever emitted as a company (also known as historical net zero)
Remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we emit to create a positive footprint!
Continue to find ways to reduce our impact into the future
Partners & tools
As part of our sustainability commitment, we regularly audit our supply chain to ensure we are – where possible – working with partners who are also taking net zero seriously.
As well as improving our own wider footprint, the simple fact of asking difficult questions of our suppliers communicates to them the importance we place on sustainability. The more companies that do this, the more pressure on even the slower movers to take action.
You can access our annual supplier audit results here.
Impact report
Transparency is another of our core values. You’ll be able to read all our impact reports and proof of our carbon removal investments here:
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Sustainability policy
Our sustainability policy is available here for anyone to read. As with all our policies, it’s in permanent draft so expect updates and improvements from time to time.
We welcome feedback, send any thoughts to hello@wearesystematic.com or @WAS_Designs on Twitter.
Alternatively, please feel free to borrow any parts that inspire you in creating your own company policy!