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Emission sources: Electricity, T&D losses, natural gas, water, waste, business travel, paper, WTT, radiative forcing, courier/freight, homeworking (excluded from footprint)
Reporting Period: 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
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Atomico, a European venture capital firm investing in innovative global technology companies, has achieved Planet Mark Certification.
This is Atomico’s second year of business carbon footprint reporting. In this crucial Decade of Action, the company wants to ensure that it is a force for good: positively transforming society and the planet by measuring our own impact on the environment.
Since certifying to Planet Mark, the company has set a target to reduce emissions by 5% annually. Over the next year, it will be working towards reducing its carbon emissions and sharing its journey with its community to inspire others.
“I am delighted to welcome Atomico to Planet Mark’s community of forward-thinking businesses. As the world races to find novel solutions to our changing climate, venture capital is an industry ripe for sustainable change. I am glad companies like Atomico are seeing the opportunity in committing to reducing its own emissions. Change must come from within, and business leaders must act boldly with their commitments, as Atomico has done. I applaud the team for rising to the challenge of cutting emissions and look forward to seeing future results.”
Atomico undertakes several measures beyond the commitment to reduce its carbon emissions. Atomico V, a new investment opportunity at the firm, allows investors to partner with ambitious founders who deliver positive, transformational change, including in the environmental space. Through its Conscious Scaling programme, the firm has developed an open-sourced framework for founders to consider all stakeholders by identifying and mitigating long-term risks associated with a business model and its impact on society or the environment. Atomico has also committed to protecting one acre of vulnerable rainforest through a collaboration with conservation charity Cool Earth.
Sustainable finance is a growing market and represents a large commercial opportunity as well as a chance to act positively for the planet. But if financial and investment companies are to make positive change, this change must start within the business. Demonstrating one’s own environmental credentials is an integral part of a mature sustainability offering for customers, and demonstrates knowledge and authority in the market of sustainable investment. To properly engage with this emerging market, companies working in finance must establish a rigorous sustainability and carbon reduction policy.
