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Move from understanding your footprint to deciding what to change. We help you assess reduction measures, shape practical roadmaps and strengthen procurement decisions, with priorities that reflect your operations, available evidence and commercial circumstances.
Measure
Analyse
Reduce
Validate
Report
Measure
Carbon Management
GHG Scopes 1, 2 & 3
Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs)
Measurement & Reporting
Analyse
Carbon Management
Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs)
Sustainable Procurement Services
Strategy & Governance
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
Reduce
Carbon Reduction Planning
Sustainable Procurement Services
Carbon Management
Strategy & Governance
Carbon Neutrality
Validate
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
Carbon Neutrality
Measurement & Reporting
Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs)
Report
Measurement & Reporting
Strategy & Governance
Carbon Management
Carbon Neutrality
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
The Reduce stage is where environmental and ESG priorities are translated into practical action. Once impacts have been measured and analysed, the next step is reducing emissions and improving performance in a way that is achievable, targeted and commercially realistic. This pillar brings together the services that help clients move from understanding their impact to delivering meaningful change across operations, products, procurement and long-term planning. It is designed for organisations that are ready to take action, whether they are just starting to shape a reduction plan or looking to strengthen and accelerate existing activity.
At this stage, we help clients identify where reduction efforts will have the greatest value, develop carbon reduction roadmaps and embed sustainability into decision-making across the business. This may involve reducing operational emissions, improving supply chain performance, setting realistic targets or developing a defined emissions-reduction pathway, with any carbon-neutrality or net-zero claim assessed against its own criteria. By focusing on practical action backed by evidence, the Reduce stage helps clients make measurable progress and prepares them for the next step in the journey: Validate, where claims, outputs and progress are tested for credibility.
The current carbon-neutrality reference is ISO 14068:2026, which replaced ISO 14068-1:2023 with a change of title and number. Claims must explain their boundary, period, reductions, remaining footprint and use of offsets, and be supported by evidence. The CMA Green Claims Code is relevant to how environmental claims are presented.
We help clients move from ambition to action with clear priorities, realistic timescales and reduction measures linked to the areas of greatest impact.
By strengthening procurement processes and supplier engagement, clients are better placed to reduce value chain emissions and improve environmental performance beyond their own operations.
Our approach is designed to balance environmental ambition with business reality, helping clients focus on changes that are achievable, measurable and aligned with wider operational goals.
When reduction activity is properly structured and tracked, clients are in a much better position to validate progress, support credible claims and report performance with confidence.
A carbon reduction plan should connect an emissions baseline with prioritised actions, responsibilities, timescales and measures of progress. Actions need to reflect your operations, value chain and available evidence. Critical Path helps assess options and develop a workable plan; actual reductions depend on implementation, monitoring and the effectiveness of the measures taken.
Yes. Supplier engagement, purchasing criteria, product choices and supply chain improvements can help address relevant Scope 3 emissions. Opportunities depend on where emissions arise and the influence your organisation has. We can help prioritise actions and improve supporting data, while checking that reported reductions use a consistent method and do not rely on unsupported supplier claims.
No. Carbon neutrality and net zero have different requirements. ISO 14068:2026 addresses carbon neutrality and prioritises emissions reductions and removal enhancements within the value chain before offsetting the remaining footprint. It does not establish net-zero requirements. Buying offsets or announcing a target does not, by itself, substantiate either claim.
Use a consistent reporting boundary, method and evidence trail, and explain significant changes to the baseline or calculations. Track completed actions as well as emissions outcomes: a lower total can reflect changes in activity rather than improved performance. Claims should identify the relevant period and scope and explain any reliance on estimates or offsets.
