Carbon reduction plan.

Supplier name: PureNet Solutions Limited. Publication date: 6 November 2026.

Commitment to achieving net zero

PureNet Solutions Limited is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040. We will reduce our emissions as far as practicable, and neutralise the small amount that remains through verified carbon removal projects.

Baseline emissions footprint

Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases produced in the past, before any reduction measures were introduced. They are the reference point against which our reductions are measured.

Baseline year: 1 January to 31 December 2025

Additional details relating to the baseline emissions calculations: 2025 is our last full year with our previous, larger office. On average 50 people worked for PureNet, about 10 of them in the office three days a week and everyone else from home. Office energy, rail travel and mileage were estimated from what we spent and travelled; commuting from the number of office days. Emissions from the cloud services that host our clients' systems are not yet included (see future initiatives). Figures are rounded to one decimal place, so totals may not add exactly.

Emissions Total (tCO2e)
Scope 1 4.7
Scope 2 2.8
Scope 3 (included sources) 34.9
Total emissions 42.3

Scope 3 covers the categories the reporting standard requires: business travel, employee commuting (including working from home), waste generated in operations, and upstream and downstream transportation and distribution. As a digital services business we have no physical goods to transport, so the transport categories are negligible. Scope 1 covers fuel we burn directly (gas heating in our 2025 office; we have no company vehicles), and Scope 2 the electricity we buy for our office.

Current emissions reporting

Reporting year: 1 January to 31 December 2026 (estimated for the full year, November 2026)

In 2026 we moved to a small serviced office, used by two or three people about two days a week. Total emissions fell by about 25% against the 2025 baseline. Most of what remains is the energy our team uses working from home, which is counted in Scope 3.

Emissions Total (tCO2e)
Scope 1 0.0
Scope 2 0.2
Scope 3 (included sources) 31.5
Total emissions 31.7

Emissions reduction targets

To continue our progress to achieving net zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets:

  • a 40% reduction in total emissions against our 2025 baseline by 2031;
  • net zero by 2040.

We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 25.0 tCO2e by 2031, a reduction of 41%, as the UK electricity grid decarbonises and through the initiatives below.

Carbon reduction projects

How we work

PureNet is a software and digital services business with a small carbon footprint, and we have kept it that way by design:

  • Home and hybrid working. Our team works mainly from home, which removes most daily commuting.
  • Meetings online. We meet clients, partners and each other on Microsoft Teams, so business travel is now rare.
  • No printers. We work digitally, from proposals and contracts to invoices, so we use almost no paper and generate very little office waste.
  • Cloud hosting. The systems we build and run for clients are hosted with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud rather than in our own server rooms. Each runs large, efficient data centres and publishes its own commitments to renewable energy and net zero.
  • Renewable energy and recycling. As our environmental policy describes, we invest in renewable energy and recycling initiatives.

Completed initiatives

The following environmental management measures and projects have been completed or implemented since the baseline year:

  • Moved to home and hybrid working as our normal way of working.
  • Replaced most business travel with online meetings on Microsoft Teams.
  • Removed printers and moved to fully digital documents.
  • Hosted client systems with major cloud providers (Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud) rather than on our own hardware.

Future initiatives

In the future we plan to implement further measures such as:

  • Measuring the emissions of the systems we host using the carbon reporting tools Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud provide, and including them in this plan.
  • Choosing cloud regions and services with lower carbon intensity where it doesn't compromise the service clients need.
  • Keeping business travel to what's necessary, and choosing rail over car or air where we can.
  • Choosing equipment with long lifespans and recycling it responsibly at end of life.
  • Reviewing this plan each year and reporting our progress against the targets above.

Declaration and sign-off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 and the associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.

Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard, and use the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting. Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions has been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).

Signed on behalf of the supplier:
Dr Paul M. Gibson, Group CEO
Date: 6 November 2026

Sources

See also: environmental policy · all our certification and policies