Certified carbon footprint for partner companies of Team Farner
Farner, Kirchhoff Consult, Komm.passion and Vim Group were the first companies in the Team Farner alliance to jointly record all climate-relevant data for the 2023 financial year and balance it in accordance with the international Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol standard. GUTcert has now officially certified this carbon footprint.
"Knowledge is good, (our own) experience is better: with this in mind, we have taken on the process of climate accounting ourselves as pioneers in our industry and have been able to gain important experience," explains Vincent Furnari, CSO, Practice Head ESG at Team Farner and Managing Partner of Kirchhoff in Germany. "Together, we want to make our way to climate neutrality - step by step. With our carbon footprint, we have now reached the first milestone in the development of a Team Farner-wide sustainability strategy," says Melanie Faithfull Kent, CEO of Team Farner. "In the coming years, we will include other partner companies in the carbon footprinting process."
In the consulting business, greenhouse gas emissions are primarily generated in the areas of electrical infrastructure, building management and mobility. The joint assessment showed that around 25 percent of the four partner companies' emissions are attributable to employee commuting, 17 percent to business travel and 15 percent to the vehicle fleet.
"Our mobility is the biggest driver of emissions and at the same time the most important lever for potential savings," explains Dominic Thalmann, Senior Consultant and responsible for ESG/Sustainability at Farner. "Not only can we derive our own reduction targets from our carbon footprint data, we can now also provide our reporting customers with the necessary Scope 3 emissions data for their carbon footprints."
