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Empowering global sustainability with Alcumus

A note from our Founder and CEO, Steve Malkin

Our partnership with Alcumus is the launch pad we need at Planet Mark to scale our impact globally. As a certification of substance, Planet Mark signifies genuine progress for organisations who are cutting carbon emissions. We want to put sustainability at the heart of every business, by engaging their teams and communicating progress to the wider world. Our 10 year growth and success to date has been phenomenal, with a network of 750+ businesses collectively achieving 11% absolute carbon reduction each year.

We know we need to build on these great foundations. Despite all this incredible work from the Planet Mark membership, the scale of the challenge of the planetary continues to escalate. We know we need to build on our incredible foundations and scale our impact so we can reach thousands more organisations globally and millions of their people to really make a difference. The partnership with Alcumus is the relationship that will enable that to happen, quickly and at scale. Together we will continue to support the drive for sustainability and enable more businesses to accelerate and achieve net
zero. By becoming our own division in Alcumus, the Planet Mark business, brand, team and mission will be powered for growth and able to meet our mission: to transform the world for the better.

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