After completing the fiscal year 2024, we have now also finalized the climate report for 2024. You can download the climate report.
6. marts 2025
We produced our first climate account in 2023, so the 2024 account is the first time we have a basis for comparison. We have reduced our CO2e by 16.6% from 2023 to 2024 – and how does that square with our revenue rising by 23.6%?
I will be completely honest and say that we have not carried out any targeted initiatives that produced this saving. The drop in emissions is mainly down to the mix of what our customers bought from us in 2024 carrying lower CO2 emissions than the year before.
We started producing an environmental account before there was any legal requirement to, in order to gain insight and experience, and to avoid suddenly being forced to do it at a time that suited us badly.
It is very much our intention to keep looking at what targeted initiatives we can undertake to reduce our emissions, but to begin with the environmental account at least gives us an awareness of where our emissions come from. That is an important basis for making improvements too.
It is actually very simple. We use the Danish company Verarca.
They have developed a software solution that integrates with our finance system (e-conomic) and uses all our expense records to categorise and calculate our emissions.
Setting up the connection between e-conomic and Verarca was fairly simple, and there was good support from Verarca.
After the system had automatically calculated across all our records, we then paid Verarca to review a number of records where a manual check was necessary.
There were also a few other costs – for example calculating fuel consumption for the private cars that had been paid mileage allowance – which we discussed with Verarca.
It costs us under 10,000 kroner a year, and in 2024 we only spent a couple of hours of our own time in total.
When our larger customers before long start asking us to document how much CO2 their purchases from us generate, we will be ready to answer!
So yes, we could probably have waited a couple of years and saved the 10,000 kroner a year. But now we are ready – and we have become more motivated to do something ourselves to reduce our emissions.