Pathway Best Practice

This pathway to net zero has been developed with best practice guidance from the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) and the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP), as signatories to the BBP Climate Change Commitment.

Chelsea’s historic nature, conservation area requirements and development pipeline have been taken into consideration, with both bottom-up calculations of building decarbonization potential, and topdown assumptions on industry-wide transformation. Our greatest focus is on the areas with maximum impact potential: supply chain, embodied carbon in developments, and occupier operations.

Together the pathway is intended to deliver a 2030 footprint reduction of 53% compared with 2019, in line with science-based goals and the Paris Agreement, and offset the remainder according to parameters set out in Pathway Action 4.

In line with common practice, much of the Scope 3 baseline has been estimated. Estimation methodologies have been updated since Version 1 of this document, according to best practice information available at the time of calculation. Current emissions methodologies are set out in Appendix C. Given the importance of scope 3 emissions, improvements in data access, quality and analysis will play an essential role in the pathway to 2030.

It is expected that this pathway will continue to evolve over the coming decade, as the industry better understands the intricacies of net zero accounting, technology develops, and processes adapt to a lowcarbon economy.

The pathway is intended to deliver a 2030 footprint reduction of 53%

Total CO2e (in tonnes)

Embodied carbon: developments

Embodied carbon: supply chain

Landlord carbon

Occupier operations

Remainder