Sustainability @ Leva

Leva is committed to addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We recognise that climate change poses significant risks to our business operations and our clients, and we are committed to taking action to reduce our carbon footprint.

We acknowledge and support the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and as a business will work towards meeting these.

We recognise that addressing climate change is a complex issue, and we are committed to continually assessing and improving our climate action policy. Our climate action and sustainability policy can be viewed here.

Leva is playing its part to mitigate the effects of climate change and continues to reduce its carbon impact.  Since establishing its baseline carbon footprint in 2022-2023, with net emissions of 1.47 tCO2-e, Leva has reduced its net emissions in 2023-2024 to 1.41 tCO2-e.  This reduction was primarily due to a reduction in its office operations impact despite increasing the number of employees from three to four in the second half of the reporting period.  Leva already operates as a low carbon impact business, and this was evident when benchmarking Leva’s ways of working against the UK Benchmark (circularecology.com) of 6.6 kgCO2-e per person per day for office working, and 2.7 kgCO2-e per person per day for working from home.  Leva’s carbon impact is 0.51 kgCO2-e per person per day (i.e. 8% of the UK benchmark for office working, and 19% of the UK benchmark for working from home).  

As part of its Climate Action and Sustainability Policy and Plan, Leva continues to review and update its ten key areas of focus to reduce its carbon footprint.  These primarily relate to office-based operations and moving people.  The key highlights for the past year can be found below.