Carbon Reduction Plan
Net Zero 2050 – PPN06/21
Pallant is the trading name of Five Fathoms Limited, and we are committed to reaching Net Zero emissions by 2050.
We have achieved a 60% reduction between 2019 and 2025 by switching from petrol vehicles to fully electric vehicles, upgrading those vehicles to more energy-efficient models, and reducing the number of on-site meetings we host.
As a digital services company working from shared workspaces with leased vehicles that do not make or produce any physical products, we have no Scope 1 emissions to report.
We are proud to be JOSCAR registered, reflecting our commitment to the high standards of the defence sector. This accreditation streamlines procurement for our clients and ensures we understand their compliance and security needs, allowing us to deliver targeted marketing solutions effectively.
2019 baseline
2.37
tCO2e
1.19 per employee
2024
1.27
tCO2e
0.42 per employee
2025
0.96
tCO2e
0.16 per employee
Net Zero progress
Our total emissions have fallen year on year, with the largest gains coming from our supply chain (Scope 3). The chart below shows total emissions by scope (tCO2e) across all three reporting years.
What's changed
Total emissions have fallen from 2.37 tCO2e in 2019 to 0.96 tCO2e in 2025 — a reduction of roughly 60% against our baseline, and down from 1.27 tCO2e in 2024.
The reductions in 2025 have come from a few clear sources. We held fewer in-person client meetings over the year, with more work handled on video calls. This is reflected in business travel and visitor travel both falling close to zero. We also upgraded our electric vehicles, which are now more energy efficient, further reducing travel-related emissions.
The biggest single change since our 2019 baseline is in the supply chain (Scope 3), which has dropped from 1.98 tCO2e to 0.49 tCO2e. Most of that improvement came from travel-related categories — business travel, commuting, and visitor travel — which together accounted for over 1.1 tCO2e in 2019 and are now negligible, reflecting our shift to video calls and more remote working.
We also want to be transparent that part of the 2025 reduction is due to the electricity grid itself becoming cleaner. The UK grid emissions factor fell by around 15% in 2025, driven by lower reliance on natural gas and a higher share of renewable and imported supply. Had the grid factor remained at its 2024 level, our building energy emissions would have been around 0.55 tCO2e rather than 0.47, so a small part of this year's saving is external to our own operations.
One area we continue to watch is building energy use itself (Scope 2), which rose from 0.39 tCO2e in 2019 to 0.55 in 2024 as we moved from a single co-working setup to two offices, before easing to 0.47 in 2025. Moving to a fully renewable electricity tariff is a clear opportunity to reduce this further, regardless of the national grid average.
Detailed calculations
Full Scope 1, 2 and 3 breakdown for each reporting year, in tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e).
2019 calculations
| Category | tCO2e |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 – Direct | 0.00 |
| Scope 2 – Indirect | 0.39 |
| Building energy use | 0.39 |
| Scope 3 – Supply chain | 1.98 |
| Building water use | 0.02 |
| Commercial waste and recycling | 0.00 |
| Electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) | 0.00 |
| Employee business travel | 0.40 |
| Employee commuting | 0.59 |
| Employees working at home | 0.26 |
| Visitors and customers travel | 0.20 |
| Goods and services | 0.08 |
| T&D emissions | 0.03 |
| WTT emissions | 0.38 |
| Total emissions | 2.37 |
2019 estimations made
One office in Rume 2 (5m x 2m), with the rest of our working done in co-working spaces and one day a week at home.
Google Cloud — no data was available for 2019, so we have entered the same figure as 2024, as Google had the same energy-matching policy in this year and our usage was about the same.
Website emissions are the same as 2024, as no historical data is available — Google deleted it in the move to GA4.
2024 calculations
| Category | tCO2e |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 – Direct | 0.00 |
| Scope 2 – Indirect | 0.55 |
| Building energy use | 0.55 |
| Scope 3 – Supply chain | 0.72 |
| Building water use | 0.01 |
| Commercial waste and recycling | 0.00 |
| Electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) | 0.00 |
| Employee business travel | 0.03 |
| Employee commuting | 0.00 |
| Employees working at home | 0.09 |
| Visitors and customers travel | 0.10 |
| Product use | 0.20 |
| Goods and services | 0.08 |
| T&D emissions | 0.05 |
| WTT emissions | 0.16 |
| Total emissions | 1.27 |
2024 estimations made
Two offices: Rume 2 (5m x 2m) and Brighton office (3m x 3m), with one day a week working from home.
Website emissions calculated on 1,000 page loads a month at 0.31g per page load. This is higher than analytics suggests, but allows for our own use in building and updating the site, which is not included in analytics data.
Google Cloud data from the Google Workspace Carbon Footprint tool. Website data from websitecarbon.com in January 2025.
2025 calculations
| Category | tCO2e |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 – Direct | 0.00 |
| Scope 2 – Indirect | 0.47 |
| Building energy use | 0.47 |
| Scope 3 – Supply chain | 0.49 |
| Building water use | 0.01 |
| Commercial waste and recycling | 0.00 |
| Electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE) | 0.00 |
| Employee business travel | 0.00 |
| Employee commuting | 0.00 |
| Employees working at home | 0.09 |
| Visitors and customers travel | 0.09 |
| Product use | 0.20 |
| Goods and services | 0.07 |
| WTT emissions | 0.02 |
| Total emissions | 0.96 |
2025 estimations made
Two offices: Rume 2 (5m x 2m) and Brighton office (3m x 3m), with one day a week working from home.
The online calculator did not return a value for the building energy-use estimate this year. The underlying energy estimate (2,679 kWh) was unaffected, but the conversion to emissions returned zero because the 2025 national grid emissions factor had not been applied. We have calculated this manually using the published 2025 UK government (DEFRA/DESNZ) grid electricity factor of 0.177 kgCO2e/kWh: 2,679 kWh × 0.177 = 474.18 kgCO2e, or 0.47 tCO2e.
Website and Google Cloud emissions estimated on the same basis as 2024.
Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress toward achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets.
- We are looking at ways we can reduce our use of cloud storage for archiving. Currently, it produces over 3kg of emissions per month.
- We are looking at ways we can archive old emails to further reduce cloud emissions.
- We are going to calculate the carbon footprint of the other digital services in Scope 3 where possible, and will re-calculate our figures as these become available.
- We are monitoring the use of AI tools and will report on their emissions as soon as we have the data from the suppliers.
- We are in discussions with our office providers to negotiate moving to a fully renewable tariff for electricity supply.
We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 0.73 tCO2e by 2030. This is a reduction of 24% against our 2025 figure.