We’re truly proud that Willow Alexander Ltd was first awarded Carbon Neutral status in 2021 as the UK’s first premium low-emissions garden design and maintenance company. Now, as part of the UN Climate Change Now initiative, we’ve made a pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030 and have a reduction plan in place to reach our goal.
To further our bid to create as much green local economy as possible we’re launching HoWA, our carbon offsetting fund to help us and our partners offset their personal emissions and of the workforce by supporting UN backed global projects to aid in a kinder greener world.
Read more about how HoWA is supporting us, our customers, our partners and the planet.
Why Carbon Neutral?
The concept of being carbon neutral is pretty straightforward. Every day we create harmful Greenhouse Gas emissions going about our daily lives and every action and product has a carbon ‘footprint’.
Being carbon neutral is about being aware of this impact and rebalancing these damaging emissions in a way that takes the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – or offsetting.
This ‘footprint’ can be offset by planting trees that capture carbon, funding renewable solutions or other projects that make a positive, rather than a negative, contribution to areas of the world most affected most by the changes our planet is experiencing.
But offsetting is not the long-term solution. Our focus has always been on reduction – reducing the emissions we are creating in the first place. By working with One Carbon World and their UN-verified offsetting projects to rebalance our emissions we’ve made the services we provide to our customers carbon neutral since January 2021 and have a plan in place to reduce these in 2024, and beyond.
UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
However, while this is crucial to maintaining a healthy business and a healthy planet, sustainability for us isn’t just about being carbon neutral.
We align our business with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is a blueprint developed by the United Nations in 2015 to help all countries tackle climate change, end poverty and build a more sustainable and equitable world for all by 2030. In total there are 17 goals and we have identified 10 where we can have the biggest impact:
