Net zero by 2050

Published [date] · Reviewed annually · Approved by the board of JNN GLOBAL LTD

1. The commitment

JNN GLOBAL LTD, trading as ETABLIX, is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050, and is taking steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions over time.

This commitment is public, approved by the board, signed by a director and reviewed annually. It covers the emissions this company controls and the emissions it influences — and the second of those is much the larger of the two.

2. What we control, and what we influence

ETABLIX has one working director and no other employees. It owns no premises, operates no plant, holds no stock and manufactures nothing. Our own emissions are very small, and a commitment that stopped there would be arithmetically correct and commercially useless.

What this company specifies is bought by somebody else, and that is where the carbon is. We scope, specify, tender and recommend temporary site establishment: compounds, welfare, temporary power and water, access, logistics and security. The emissions from a site compound over an eighteen-month programme — generator fuel, cabin heating, water haulage, waste movements, workforce travel — are several orders of magnitude larger than our own footprint.

And they are substantially decided at the moment the specification is written, months before anything arrives on site.

3. The point at which temporary site emissions are decided

A generator sized from a benchmark rather than from the measured demand profile runs at low load for the whole programme, burning fuel at poor efficiency. Nobody notices, because it works. The decision was made once, at specification, and cannot be undone afterwards without replacing the set.

That pattern repeats across the compound. These are the points where the specification decides the emissions:

• Generation sized to the measured demand profile, not to the last project's benchmark.
• Grid connection or hybrid battery where the programme and the connection date allow. The largest single reduction available on most compounds — and it depends entirely on being considered early enough for the connection lead time to be met.
• Cabin fabric and heating standards specified rather than stock accepted. Cabin heating runs all winter on every site; the specification decides it, the hire rate rarely reflects it.
• Welfare and access located to reduce on-site vehicle movement — a compound laid out around the programme rather than around the site entrance.
• Water and waste routes specified rather than arranged reactively. Both are vehicle movements, and both are visible in advance.
• Fuel type, plant age and emissions standard required at enquiry. A requirement at enquiry is a selection criterion. The same requirement after award is a request.

We commit to putting these points in writing in every specification we produce, whether or not a client adopts them.

4. What we do not claim

ETABLIX recommends and the client decides. We do not claim emissions reductions on projects we do not control, and we do not report client-side savings in our own figures. Our reported emissions are our own: Scope 1, Scope 2, and the five Scope 3 categories the government reporting standard requires.

A micro-business reporting a tiny footprint while claiming a large environmental contribution has overclaimed. One reporting a tiny footprint and saying nothing about its influence has understated the only thing that makes it useful to a client. This page is written to avoid both.

5. Our own reductions

Small in absolute terms, and reported honestly as such:

• A renewable electricity tariff — the cheapest reduction available to a business with no premises of its own, and the first one taken.
• A contemporaneous mileage and travel log, so business travel is measured rather than estimated. Better data usually moves a figure; it is recorded either way.
• Video meetings as the default for anything that is not a site visit, and rail in preference to car or domestic air where the journey allows.
• Electric or hybrid at the next vehicle change — at the point of change, not by early replacement, because scrapping a serviceable vehicle carries a carbon cost of its own.
• Equipment kept to end of life and disposed of through WEEE routes.

6. Carbon Reduction Plan

Our Carbon Reduction Plan is prepared to the reporting standard at Procurement Policy Note 06/21: baseline year, Scope 1, Scope 2 and the five required Scope 3 categories, reduction targets, carbon reduction projects, and a declaration signed by a director.

[Status: the plan is prepared and its emissions figures are being compiled from the company's first full reporting period. It will be published here, and updated annually, on [date]. Replace this paragraph with the download link on publication.]

7. Review

This commitment and the Carbon Reduction Plan behind it are reviewed annually, and whenever the business or its supply chains change materially. Each revision states the period it covers, and earlier revisions are retained rather than replaced.

Justin Ngolu Nseya
Founder & Managing Director, ETABLIX — a Groupe Nseya brand
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