What we do
ESG compliance in the UK is not a single certificate. It is a stack of overlapping duties — Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) in the annual accounts, the Companies Act non-financial statement, TCFD-aligned climate disclosure for the largest companies, an emerging set of UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, and, increasingly, a Carbon Reduction Plan to win public-sector work. We exist to make sense of that stack for a specific kind of business: a mid or large UK company that is caught, or about to be caught, by mandatory carbon and climate reporting, and needs the numbers and the plan rather than a lecture.
Our work has two halves that reinforce each other. The first is the reporting: a defensible Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon baseline built to the GHG Protocol using the UK government's official conversion factors, an assurance-ready SECR or TCFD-aligned disclosure, and a materiality assessment that keeps both focused. The second is the delivery: a costed, sequenced net-zero roadmap — energy efficiency first, then electrification, on-site generation and, last, credible offsetting for the residual — with a science-based target where external validation earns its keep. The report tells you where you are; the roadmap is how next year's numbers get better than this year's.
Who we work with
Our clients are heads of sustainability, ESG leads, finance directors and company secretaries at businesses with 250 or more employees, a quoted parent, or a large private group that has crossed the SECR thresholds. The trigger is almost always practical: SECR is due with the accounts and nobody owns the numbers, a large customer or a public buyer has demanded a Carbon Reduction Plan before a bid can proceed, a bank or investor is asking for climate-related disclosure, or the group is weighing up the new reporting standards. We speak the buyer's own language — SECR, Scope 1, 2 and 3, science-based target, PQQ, assurance-ready, materiality — because that is what the job actually requires.
How we are different
Most ESG content online is either a directory of frameworks and free checkers, or a values statement that could have been written by anyone. Neither builds a baseline, makes a materiality judgement, or produces a disclosure that survives assurance. Three things set our approach apart, and all three are about honesty.
We give you the compliance answer first. Before we quote a programme, we tell you which duties genuinely apply to you — whether SECR catches you against the 250-employee, £36 million turnover, £18 million balance-sheet test, whether you are in TCFD scope, and what a PPN 006 tender actually needs. We would rather tell you a duty does not apply than sell you scope you do not need.
We separate law from proposal. As at 2 July 2026, SECR, the Companies Act non-financial statement and TCFD-aligned disclosure are enacted and mandatory for the companies they catch, and the net-zero-by-2050 target is statutory. The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards are finalised for voluntary use but not yet mandatory. A great deal of competitor content mis-states that. We build your programme on the duties that bind you now, structured so that adopting the new standards later is an extension rather than a rebuild.
We are honest about the hard questions. Does buying solar or signing a power purchase agreement count towards your net-zero target? Partly — it reduces your market-based Scope 2 emissions under the GHG Protocol's dual reporting, but it does nothing for Scope 1 or Scope 3, and the credibility depends on quality and additionality. We build targets so a genuine measure counts where it should and no further, which is what keeps a claim safe from a greenwashing challenge under the CMA's Green Claims Code.
The standards we work to
Everything we produce is built to recognised methodologies rather than our own opinion, so a third party — an auditor, an investor, a public buyer — can check it. The greenhouse gas inventory follows the GHG Protocol Corporate and Scope 3 Standards and the UK government's conversion factors. Where a company wants external validation of its targets, we work to the Science Based Targets initiative framework, which is voluntary and market-led, not a legal requirement, and we say so. Disclosures are written to be assurance-ready to ISAE 3000 or, for greenhouse gas information specifically, ISAE 3410. Every regulatory fact on this site is verified against gov.uk and legislation.gov.uk and carries the date it was checked.
We are a specialist consultancy, not a certification body: we do not audit or certify your business ourselves. What we do is build the reporting and the plan to the point where an independent assurance provider, a regulator or a tender panel finds them straightforward. If your situation falls outside what we can genuinely help with, we will tell you that too.