climate transition plans
Pukka Herbs
Pukka’s purpose is to nurture healthier, happier lives through powerful organic plants. In 2019, Pukka joined Business Declares in declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency and is taking bold action on these crises.
Forster Communications
In January 2020 Forster launched its ambitious Climate Positive Plan, choosing to go beyond their own emissions and include their whole value chain and wider community. Taking this bold move has helped many others to think differently about what they can do to address the climate emergency.
As they tackle the complexities of achieving their goals, they are looking to also take new steps to ensure adaptation and mitigation measures support social justice and drive equality. Taking direct action over things they can control and seeking to inspire change more broadly, they continue to learn and welcome the opportunity to talk and share. 2021 is about everyone choosing to lead by example.
A year on, Forster Communications have updated their Climate Positive Plan.
WHEB Group
WHEB Asset Management is a positive impact investor focused on the opportunities created by the transition to a low carbon and sustainable global economy.
It was established to enable savers of all types to invest their money in companies addressing some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.
They are an owner managed partnership that is incentivised to take long-term decisions.
WHEB Asset Management is also a Certified B Corporation.
Pukka herbs
Pukka’s purpose is to nurture healthier, happier lives through powerful organic plants. In 2019, Pukka joined Business Declares in declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency. Their strategy presents a bold sustainability vision including regenerative organic agriculture.
By working closely with farmers and growers to find natural, low-carbon ways to boost yields and support conservation. Their goal is to be net zero by 2030. This is approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative as in line with emissions reductions needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees.
Wholegrain Digital
Wholegrain Digital was founded in 2007 by husband and wife, Tom and Vineeta Greenwood, with the aim of helping positive organisations to thrive online. They wanted to see whether they could create a truly sustainable business using design and tech for good.
Their customer-first approach led them to identify that WordPress was the perfect platform to meet clients’ needs, so they specialised and became London’s first WordPress agency. For over a decade, they have been using WordPress at scale for positive businesses, the public sector and charities.
Ecotricity
Dale Vince, started the company in 1996 with sustainability in mind and it is a core of Ecotricity’s values.
Ecotricity started off as a green generation business but since grew to cover energy, transport and food, accounting for 80% of their emissions and they also giving land back to nature.
They have a unique “bills-into-mills” model, where all profits from the energy business are reinvested into new windmills, sunmills and soon gasmills.
Toast Ale
One of our favourite approaches to the climate emergency is Toast. They have developed a niche in the circular economy which also tackles one of the contributing factors to climate change. Toast Ale spotted a unique opportunity in 2015 to respond to the colossal environmental impact of food waste by utilising a byproduct of the industry in the brewing process. Heel ends of loaves and surplus bread are sourced from bakers and the sandwich industry.
“Here’s to a beer with more taste and a world without waste.”