Carbon Reduction Plan

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.

Current Emissions Reporting

As we are all fully remote and have been for over two years, we report our employees as homeworkers. The home-working electricity and gas consumption per homeworker is accounted for in Scope 3. As we have no company owned cars during this period, our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are both 0.

To calculate electricity and gas usage for any office space held, we use figures provided by the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) for an air-conditioned office: 226 kWh/m² for electricity and 178 kWh/m² for gas. We held no office space during this reporting period, so these figures were not applied.

This year we introduced a Cycle to Work scheme, giving employees a low-carbon option for local travel and further reducing our reliance on car-based transport.

Our emissions per employee have decreased from 0.27 to 0.22. Please note our headcount has increased by 50% since the last reporting period.

Huggg Limited’s carbon emissions assessment for April 2025 to March 2026 indicates a slight increase in emissions overall but a decrease of 0.5 per employee, as remote working continues to be the norm across the team.

We are recommitting to sustainability with several initiatives and continue to progress towards Net Zero by 2040, with the following carbon reduction targets:

• We have kept whole-team face-to-face meetings minimal, and all team members continue to use public transport for business travel, reducing reliance on personal vehicles and taxis. The very large majority of work travel is by public transport, with taxis used only in exceptional circumstances and employee-owned cars used on a handful of occasions.
• This year we introduced a Cycle to Work scheme to further incentivise green, low-carbon travel methods among the team.
• We will continue to encourage remote working, ensuring all team members have the infrastructure needed to work effectively from home.
• We include environmental responsibility and participation in green initiatives as part of our company-wide meet-ups.
• We always strive to minimise unnecessary travel.
• We held no office space during this reporting period; the team remained entirely remote.
• We remain conscious of sustainable packaging and logistics when onboarding suppliers.
  
  Huggg is dedicated to maintaining a low carbon footprint relative to team size, and aims to reduce it further in the next reporting period. We project that carbon emissions will remain broadly stable over the next year, as the team continues to work remotely, travel only when needed, and take up newly introduced green travel incentives such as Cycle to Work.

Huggg Limited completed its baseline carbon emissions assessment in June 2022. This baseline is used for comparison in all subsequent annual assessments.

We have made reductions in some areas year on year, while other areas have seen a slight increase; we continue to focus on improving these using the plans outlined above. We have generally seen a reduction in emissions per employee since assessments began, and we continue to encourage team members to choose renewable energy providers at home - with an intention to move from encouragement towards active incentivisation in future.

This year, we introduced a Cycle to Work scheme, giving the team a concrete, incentivised way to choose low-carbon travel - a first step in that direction alongside our existing home energy encouragement.

We remain interested in carbon offsetting as a future measure. We continue to hold less frequent whole-team meetings, using an overnight stay between two days where a meet-up spans multiple days, to reduce travel emissions. Each year we look for further ways to reduce our footprint and progress towards Net Zero by 2040.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and 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 standard4 and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting5.

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) Standard6.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).

Signed on behalf of the Supplier:

Paul Wickers

CEO, Huggg

07/05/2026