United Kingdom Accreditation Service
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023-24)
Reporting Period: 2023-24
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:1171.57 tCO2e/year (Scope 2)
Scope 2 Emissions:1171.57 tCO2e/year
Scope 3 Emissions:120.34 tCO2e/year
Total Energy Consumption:106.94 MWh/year
Carbon Intensity:0.035 tCO2e per assessment day (2024)
ESG Focus Areas
- Net zero and sustainability
- Digitalisation
- Healthcare
- Forensics
Environmental Achievements
- Introduced an attractive allowance for fully electric company cars to incentivize the adoption of electric vehicles.
- Switched office lighting to LED and introduced other energy-saving measures.
- Adopted a blended approach to assessing, promoting greater use of remote internal meetings to mitigate environmental impact.
Social Achievements
- Employee engagement and morale improved to 80%.
- Launched carer support benefit for employees.
- Conducted workshops on menopause and neurodiversity.
- Created a Belonging Employee Resource Group "Bridge".
Governance Achievements
- Successfully challenged a court ruling in Italy, overturning a decision not to recognise UKAS-accredited quality certificates in public procurement tenders.
- Implemented measures to ensure early notification of potential failures in services provided by accredited customers.
- Completed the launch of assessment and customer portals.
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- To be respected and recognised across the world for our role in building a safe, secure and sustainable society.
Medium-term Goals:
- Enhance customer and assessor portals to further digitise the assessment process
- Digitise the accreditation schedule for automated verification
- Develop our CertCheck tool to support verification of a broader range of UKAS accredited activities
Short-term Goals:
- Deliver ‘World Class’ customer service
- Fully implement the lessons learned from the Grenfell Inquiry
Environmental Challenges
- Continuing domestic and global uncertainties (wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, geopolitical standoff between the US and China, inflation, cost of living, provision of public services).
- Impacts from the UK’s exit from the EU.
- Cybercrime risks.
- Inflationary pressures.
Mitigation Strategies
- Investments in structural processes, recruitment, onboarding capacity, tools, and management structures.
- Accelerated and streamlined operational delivery using data.
- Digitalisation of core tools and documents.
- Increased political engagement.
- Closer partnerships with key businesses and customer bodies.
- Deepening relationships with professional institutions.
- Continuous evolution of cyber defense efforts.
- Implemented measures to ensure early notification of potential failures in services provided by accredited customers.
- Investment in talent retention and acquisition.