HyphenEarth
Our HyphenEarth team explore how we can work to reduce our environmental impact and achieve negative carbon emissions. What began as a humble working group has now become a fully fledged Community of Practice, with the full support of the Leadership team.
We're focussed on maximising our impact in support of our Hyphen8 Company values. By calculating our indirect emissions across our full supply chain, we can develop a strategy to offset or remove an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
SME Climate Committment
To show our resolve to take action, Hyphen8 has made the SME Climate Commitment:
Recognising that climate change poses a threat to the economy, nature and society at large, our company commits to take action immediately in order to:
- Halve our greenhouse gas emissions before 2030
- Achieve net zero emissions before 2050
- Disclose our progress on a yearly basis
In doing so, we are proud to be recognised by the United Nations Race to Zero campaign, and join governments, businesses, cities, regions, and universities around the world that share the same mission.
Putting Down Roots
Forests are critically important for our climate, acting as carbon sinks for up to 2.6 billion tons of CO2 every year. They’re also vital for the ecosystems that exist within and around them, both animal and human. We’ve been working with Ecologi to offset some of the impacts of our business, and have so far planted 2,150 trees and funded five climate projects including renewable energy and biodiversity efforts around the world. In total, from supporting these projects, we’ve now offset a total of 69.5 tonnes of carbon-dioxide!
We know that these numbers are small in comparison to the magnitude of the challenges that face us, but this is just the start!
This year, we’re going to find ways for our team to plant trees here in the UK. As we’re pretty widely spread out (from Glasgow to Bristol and everywhere in between), we’ll be finding local projects so that people can pitch in without the impact of travelling across the country.
Emissions
By understanding how many people work in each home (and comparing to working hours and our purchase ledger), we can start to more accurately calculate Hyphen8’s environmental impact this year for the first time.
To ensure that the data is accurate and usable, we're working with with Carbon Footprint to validate our emissions figures, and will repeat this exercise annually to track our continued performance.
Remote Working Impact
As a fully remote organisation, we all work from our homes (or occasionally a nice co-working space!). While that means that we don’t have a central office that we need to heat and light, it also means that the power we use across all of our homes has its own impact. Staff will have differing levels of insulation and natural light in their homes, and may have differing numbers of devices available for use.
To better understand the impact that our homeworkers are having, the HyphenEarth team have begun to assess our carbon emissions through a comprehensive survey.
Supporting underfunded, grassroots charities to enable disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in society
What we offer
We challenge and re-design processes, and build innovative solutions to help our customers make an impact
Superpower Salesforce
We design, build and support innovative and flexible solutions on Salesforce.
We can help you maximise your impact and free up time to spend with your stakeholders and concentrate on your mission.
Design Better Services
Our Service Design team have joined us from leading UK funders, and have years of grant-making and charity expertise.
We can redesign your processes and help you deliver your mission more effectively.
Many of the changes are already being applied across our wider work and there’s no going back to the old ways. For now, we take a breath, see what works and what doesn’t, then we go again making the next round better.