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

Carbon-negative for our past, present and future by 2030.

Our impact

In 2021 we emitted 53TNS of carbon and removed the same amount from the atmosphere to make us carbon neutral.

Our pledge

We’ve pledged 1% of gross profit for the planet.
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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.

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Carbon reduction plan

2022 – Carbon neutral
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Set net zero target

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Pledge 1% for the planet

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Remove as much CO2 from the atmosphere as we emit

2025 – Net zero
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Reduce our emissions as far as possible

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Remove all the carbon we’ve ever emitted as a company (also known as historical net zero)

2030 – Net negative
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Remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we emit to create a positive footprint!

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Continue to find ways to reduce our impact into the future

Partners & tools

Achieving our net zero target isn’t something we can do alone. Here are some the partners and tools helping us limit our carbon emissions.

Supercritical

Our partner for measuring, reducing and offsetting our footprint. They also produce our annual impact report.
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The Projects Club

We’re officially based at The Projects Club on Brighton beach. A lovely bunch of people, BCorp pending and a net zero company.
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Figma

Our design and whiteboarding tool of choice, Figma have made bold commitments to being net zero by 2040.
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Basecamp

We use Basecamp to run our internal and external projects. They are committed to becoming carbon negative for their cumulative history and moving forward.
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Ecosia

We encourage our team to use Ecosia as their default search engine. Ecosia put all their profits from web searches into planting trees: over 157 million to date. They also don’t sell your data, which is nice.
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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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2021 impact report

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2021 removal statement

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!