Corporate Social Responsibility
JNP Group has always had a Social Conscience and have always taken our Corporate Social Responsibility seriously.
Respecting our colleagues, our clients, our communities, and supply chain and being committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion in all our undertakings whilst prioritising safety and protection of the environment has always been at the forefront of our thinking.
Tackling the climate crisis and cutting carbon emissions continues to remain one of the key issues facing all societies and a key challenge that all businesses must continue to proactively address.
Over recent years the construction industry has put in place many new initiatives and improved manufacturing and operational processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the built environment still continues to be a major contributor to global carbon emissions, and we must continue to think in terms of whole lifecycle. Intrinsically, construction materials have a carbon intensive load and still represent one of the biggest contributors to embodied carbon.
Therefore, as a service provider one of the biggest impacts we can make is to work and collaborate with other professionals and supply chains to support our clients in meeting their net-zero carbon aspirations.
A key factor in collaborating to achieve net-zero for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, in line with the UK Government’s commitment under the Climate Change Act for decarbonising of the United Kingdom as a whole, is to continue to review and address our own carbon emissions and implement JNP’s carbon reduction plans.
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
As a service-based SME our environmental footprint is relatively small, however JNP Group are committed to fully achieving Net Zero emissions by 2040.
Baseline Emissions Footprint
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.
JNP Group set our Baseline as 2019 as this records what our Carbon Footprint was for the way we operated before the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic and implementation of our carbon reduction strategies over the last few years. This can be mapped against our current emissions each year to monitor the effects of the changes we have made to the way JNP operates. This can then be compared with future measures of our carbon emissions which will be calculated on an annual basis using our trading year from 1st January to 31st December to monitor our progress towards achieving carbon net-zero by our committed target date.
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Baseline Year: 2019 |
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Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations. |
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JNP Group carried out, and continue to carry out on an annual basis, an audit of our carbon emissions in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the Government Guidelines for PPN 06/21 to assess our Scope 1 and 2 and a selection of Scope 3 emissions which are relevant to our business operations. We have assessed our emissions utilising the GHG Protocol Emissions Calculation Tool and the relevant UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting. All of our 7 Offices were leased and where it was not possible to identify precise consumption figures for purchase/consumed energy sources then appropriate proportional usage estimates were applied to calculate our Scope 2 emissions. Where available specific data in relation to our scope 3 emissions was fairly limited at that current time then appropriate average allowances were made and GHG conversion factors applied to calculate the likely emissions. This data continues to be refined over future years through collaboration with our supply chain and staff. The following 5 defined categories have been considered in the assessment of Scope 3 emissions: – Category 4. Upstream transportation and distribution – As a service-based company our purchase of products is relatively limited but appropriate allowances were calculated and will continue to be refined over future reporting years. Category 5. Waste generated – The only waste generated from our operations is general domestic type waste arising from a typical office environment, which is disposed of via Local Authority waste collection services set up by our property Landlords. Typical allowances have been used. Category 6. Business travel – Detailed data was available and utilised in calculations. Category 7. Employee commuting – Average allowances were calculated, with the intention that reporting data would be refined over future reporting years through consultations with staff. Category 9. Downstream transport and distribution – JNP Group do not generate carbon emissions via this category, all our outputs are issued electronically, which is included within our energy purchase/consumption of our Scope 2 emissions. |
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Baseline year emissions: 2019 |
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EMISSIONS |
TOTAL (tCO2e) |
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Scope 1 |
22.62 |
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Scope 2 |
81.51 |
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Scope 3 (Included Sources) |
388.54 |
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Total Emissions |
492.67 |
Last Year’s Emissions Reporting (2024)
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Reporting Year: 2024 |
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EMISSIONS |
TOTAL (tCO2e) |
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Scope 1 |
38.19 |
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Scope 2 |
59.86 |
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Scope 3 (Included Sources) |
123.99 |
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Total Emissions |
222.04 |
Current Year’s Emissions Reporting (2025)
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Reporting Year: 2025 |
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EMISSIONS |
TOTAL (tCO2e) |
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Scope 1 |
22.29 |
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Scope 2 |
46.41 |
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Scope 3 (Included Sources) |
84.43 |
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Total Emissions |
153.13 |
Emission reduction targets
This is the fifth Carbon Reduction Plan compiled by JNP Group in accordance with PPN 06/21 and the associated guidance and reporting standards for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Where assumed average allowances were utilised in previous years our data capture for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 has continued to be refined through collaboration with our supply chain and staff travel data surveys to provide more accurate data.
For our Scope 2 emissions of purchased heating and power a combination of actual recorded consumption figures and appropriate proportional use estimates continue to be used for this class of emissions. During 2025 we closed our Hartlepool office having suspended operations the previous year, therefore we currently have a total of 6 offices including our relatively new Belfast office. All 6 of our offices are leased serviced offices. Proportional usage estimates have been assessed for 5 of our 6 offices where charges are included in the service charges and not separately metered.
JNP Group’s small fleet of company vans has reduced during 2025 from 7 down to 5 diesel vans due to reaching end of useful economic operation, reduction in site works in the Geo-Environmental Section and staff utilising own vehicles for business use. The number of company cars has also been reduced in the last year (2025) from a total of 8 down to 2 of which 1 is petrol and 1 is a petrol/hybrid model.
It was intended for the fleet of company vehicles to be replenished over the following 5-year period from 2021 with fully electric or hybrid models. However, this is restricted by the available infrastructure at the office locations which is determined by our Landlords. Currently only 1 out of our 6 offices has access to an EV charging point. So, although this target has continued to slip it is still our intention to try to work with and influence our Landlords to install EV charging points wherever practicable. In relation to our company vans, this is also influenced by the availability and affordability of vehicles available on the market at the time of replenishment. Although our small fleet of company vans are still diesel models we have reduced the number of vehicles. The fleet of company cars has been substantially reduced where staff have opted to swap from a company owned vehicle to a car allowance and taken advantage of our company subsidised Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme.
We still continue to work with and endeavour to influence our landlords to improve carbon reduction and maximise energy efficiency at our offices through the use of LED/PIR’s, dynamic thermostatic controls, Improved/increased recycling/re-use of materials and components. We will also promote the purchase of the most carbon efficient electricity and heat and power fuel sources to our Landlords.
The largest generator of carbon from our operations still remains transport from staff commuting and business travel (scope 3 emissions) and mobile combustion from fuel consumed by company owned vehicles (scope 1 emissions). This last year staff commuting and business travel have decreased substantially due to a reduction in overall staff numbers during our 2025 trading year. We have, and still continue to, invest heavily in IT to promote the increased use of virtual meetings for both internal and external meetings. This has made a major contribution towards the reduction in our Scope 3 emissions from our base year of 2019.
We have continued to support, encourage and promote the use of electric vehicles to our staff, even though access to electric vehicle charging points at our leased offices is limited. To this end, in 2023 JNP introduced a subsidised Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme via salary sacrifice to try to incentivise staff to switch to electric vehicles. Initially, take-up of this new staff benefit was extremely limited with only 1 person taking up the option in 2023 increasing to 4 staff at the start of Jan 2025. However, this is now beginning to gather momentum having doubled to 8 staff at the end of 2025 with another due for delivery Jan 2026. It is still considered that this continues to be widely influenced by continuing perceptions of slow progress in the development of the national EV charging infrastructure and the current financial climate continuing to defer investment/capital spending among the staff. JNP will continue to support, encourage and promote the use of more carbon efficient vehicles and generally expect the take-up of this staff benefit to continue to increase as infrastructure installations accelerate and the economy improves over future years.
JNP have undertaken a review of staff travel habits and used the data to promote carbon efficient solutions to travel for employees at all offices. Some of our staff that commute by car already drive carbon neutral via participation in the carbon offsetting initiatives implemented by the oil companies from which they purchase fuel; however, these offsets have not been taken into account in measuring our carbon footprint.
JNP continues to operate a cycle to work scheme and will continue to promote this more widely. We have a number of staff that cycle to work or use a combination of cycling and rail travel and some staff that alternate between cycling and car travel across their working week. We also have a few staff that live local to their offices and walk to and from work each day.
JNP have introduced several short-term objectives to educate staff and reduce fuel usage through improved logistics planning and use of local office resources wherever possible and adopt improved driving and idling techniques. To reduce paper and printer usage and promote our paperless office policy to reduce our upstream transport and distribution contributions from purchase of goods. This includes investigating the use of virtual documents for administrative and promotional purposes to reduce the consumption of resources and generation of carbon.
Following the Covid-19 Pandemic JNP formally adopted flexible working and continue to monitor and promote positive outcomes from this policy. Employee commuting is and will continue to remain the largest contributor to our carbon footprint and the implementation of our hybrid flexible working policy and the continued promotion of virtual meetings have been major factors in the reduction of our carbon emissions over the last 5 years.
JNP Group have achieved certification under ISO 14001 for Environmental Management and will continue to promote carbon efficient working and design solutions in our outputs.
JNP has established an internal Carbon Committee which convenes on a quarterly basis to monitor and drive forward our initiatives. The Committee includes technical representatives from all our design disciplines. We have a two-fold strategy to drive towards minimising our own carbon generation from our own operations and to develop the implementation of tools and guidance for producing carbon efficient designs to minimise embodied carbon within our design outputs as outlined within our Carbon Strategy document.
As an organisation our carbon emissions emanate from a limited number of sources, namely the servicing and heating/cooling of our leased offices and travel activities of staff for business and commuting to work and the activities of our small number of suppliers.
We have seen a substantial decrease in our Greenhouse Gas Emissions during 2025 from staff commuting and business travel. This has been driven by a reduction in overall staff numbers, down from an average of 116 in 2024 to an average of 99 throughout 2025, but also a reduction in business travel as a result of improved efficiency and smarter working. This emanated from a restructuring of the business in mid-2025 to lower our cost base as a result of the decline in the marketplace through the later part of 2024 and major portion of 2025.
As part of our projected business strategy for growth, we expect to see an increase in staff numbers again in 2026 which will increase our staff commuting and business travel figures for next year.
The overall effect of the reduction of staff commuting and reduced business travel, smarter and more efficient working and changes to vehicles with more carbon efficient fuel sources has significantly improved the per capita emissions produced by our staff throughout 2025 as can be seen in the table below.
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Average No. Staff |
Total annual emissions (tCO2e) |
Carbon emissions per head |
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2019 |
117 |
492.67 |
4.211 |
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2020 |
116 |
292.15 |
2.519 |
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2021 |
110 |
252.24 |
2.293 |
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2022 |
111 |
196.92 |
1.774 |
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2023 |
115 |
209.74 |
1.824 |
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2024 |
116 |
222.04 |
1.914 |
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2025 |
99 |
153.13 |
1.547 |
Analysis of 2025 v 2024 Emissions
It can be seen from the table above that our overall emissions for 2025 decreased by 68.91 tCO2e below our 2024 emissions.
Our average staff numbers for 2025 were 99 which represents a reduction of approximately 15% over 2024, however our percentage reduction in our overall emission figures equates to a reduction of approximately 31% indicating the continued improvement in our carbon efficiency.
There was a substantial reduction of approximately 41% in our Scope 1 mobile combustion from fuel consumed by vehicles owned or leased by the company, down from 37.67 to 15.38 tCO2e. This was driven by the reduction in the number of company owned vans and cars.
Our Scope 2 emissions from heating and power usually remains fairly stable, however, with a restructuring of the business and a reduction to the number of offices this reduced in 2025 from 59.86 down to 46.41 tCO2e, equating to a reduction of approximately 22%.
In relation to our scope 3 emissions there was a significant reduction in our upstream transportation and distribution emissions of approximately 76% down from 9.96 to 2.36 tCO2e. This substantial decrease is due to reduction in purchase of annual consumables, due to reduction in staff numbers, but also reduction in longer term consumables stock replenishment.
Scope 3 emissions attributable to business travel reduced from 22.85 down to 19.13 tCO2e equating to a reduction of approximately 16%, which roughly correlates with the reduction in staff numbers for the last year.
The main improvement in our Scope 3 emissions is a reduction of 31.31 tCO2e down from 87.34 to 56.03 tCO2e, representing a reduction of approximately 36%. This reflects not just the reduction in the numbers of staff but also the change to more fuel-efficient modes of transport and improved ways of working using hybrid working, flexible working, and virtual conferencing.
Summary
It can be seen from above that since the base year for our carbon footprint in 2019 that JNP continued to reduce our annual emissions each year, on a per head basis, with the exception of 2023 and 2024 which were expected to increase slightly due to the increased staff numbers in-line with our company growth strategy during those years. The downward trend continued into 2025 due to a reduction in staff numbers; however, it can be seen that the introduction of our carbon reduction initiatives improved our carbon efficiency in 2025
At the start of this process JNP set a target to reduce our annual emissions by 20% of our baseline emissions (2019) over the following 5-year period. In our January 2023 Carbon Reduction Plan, we increased that target to a reduction of 50% from our baseline emissions over the next 5-year period. Comparison of the figures above demonstrates that for 2022 JNP had already achieved a 57.87% reduction per head over our 2019 baseline emissions and a 56.68% reduction per head over our 2019 baseline emissions for 2023. Even though our emissions increased slightly during 2024 this still represented a 54.55% reduction from our baseline year of 2019. This improved performance continued into 2025 where a reduction per head of approximately 63% over our baseline figures was achieved. Therefore, we are continuing to better the 5-year target that we set even though there was a slight increase in our emissions for 2023 and 2024 which was expected for the increased numbers of staff.
As an organisation we consider that we are at our optimum level of carbon emissions efficiency even though there will continue to be minor variations/fluctuations over the next few years. It is unlikely that any further major improvements in reduction of our greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved without a substantial culture change in relation to our largest contributing factors to our carbon footprint of staff commuting and business travel. JNP predict that this will improve further as staff change to more carbon efficient modes of transport utilising less polluting fuel sources as the expansion of the EV infrastructure continues and improves over future years.
We will continue to measure and publish our carbon footprint on an annual basis and adopt any further improvement initiatives we can to improve our environmental performance.
Inevitably, even after implementation of all our initiatives it is likely there will always remain a residual balance of carbon emissions from JNP Group as a result of our operations. In order to achieve net-zero JNP acknowledge that in future we will need to invest in carbon offsetting initiatives. JNP will continue to research the best and most suitable carbon offsetting projects in which to invest over the next 8 – 10 years to achieve the best outcome, however the core focus will always remain to maximise the reduction in our own carbon emissions wherever possible and practicable.
Declaration and Sign Off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and the associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the Board of Directors.
Signed on behalf of JNP Group
Date: January 2026