Genesis partners with ‘Carbon Footprint’ to fulfil Net Zero pledge

CARDIFF-based environmental science research company, Genesis Biosciences, has joined forces with carbon offsetting specialist Carbon Footprint in its pledge to offset 100% of its 2021 emissions.

Genesis has invested years of scientific investigation and millions of pounds into developing its innovative eco-friendly microbial and antimicrobial technology. The global company is now looking to replicate its ecobenign philosophy within its products, into its business functions as well.

As part of its ISO 14001 Certification objectives, Genesis pledged to offset 20% of the carbon emissions of 2021. However, following an analysis, the company had already drastically reduced its emissions on previous years due to the pandemic and elected to offset 100%.

Debbie Williams, group compliance officer for Genesis Biosciences, said: “We all know the need to reduce man-made greenhouse gases

A big step towards sustainability

UNGER Germany GmbH takes seriously its responsibility for the environment and the society in which it operates. Now the manufacturer has again been recognised for its efforts: the independent rating agency EcoVadis has awarded Unger its silver sustainability certificate.

Jochen Wagener, vice president of marketing at Unger, said: “We strive continuously to contribute to sustainable business practices, social commitment and a more responsible use of natural resources. Our whole team is extremely proud of the silver certificate from EcoVadis, as it shows recognition of our efforts.”

EcoVadis is one of the world’s largest sustainability rating agencies, working with over 65,000 companies from more than 200 industries and 160 countries worldwide. The agency applies procedures which help companies to better manage and communicate their sustainability performance in very clear, trackable ways. As part of the process, it uses a rating system to illustrate the extent to which companies have succeeded in integrating their sustainability principles and goals into their business processes.

“Our improvement from bronze to silver shows that our efforts are bearing fruit,” as both individuals and businesses. It’s about working as a collective to do what we can to try to undo the negative effect that carbon emissions have had on the environment. We partnered with Carbon Footprint which offers a simple method for companies to fund solutions for climate change. We initially calculated our carbon footprint, which we do annually anyway, and this gave us the carbon emissions we needed to offset. For our first project, we’ve chosen to fund tree planting in Wales, which feels like a natural choice as it not only gives us the offset we had targeted ourselves, but it’s also a local project, and one that supports the biodiversity.”

WWW.GENESISBIOSCIENCES.US continued Jochen Wagener. “That said, it’s just a milestone. We are not resting on our laurels - we are going to keep challenging ourselves to keep improving and becoming more sustainable.”

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