Carbon emissions data and targets

01 October 2022

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Eke Panuku is part of the Climate Leaders Coalition (CLC) acting on the climate emergency.

We are a Toitū carbonreduce certified organisation committed to measuring and managing our greenhouse gases, and publicly reporting them.

Read in more detail below.

We have set a science-based target to reduce our direct emissions by 35% by 2030. This is consistent with the CLC commitment to reduce carbon to stay within a 2-degree global temperature rise.

Our emissions are audited and reported on annually by Toitū Envirocare, these reports are below:

 

Emissions are classified into the following categories:

  • Direct GHG emissions (Category 1): GHG emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the company.
  • Indirect GHG emissions (Category 2): GHG emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, heat and steam consumed by the company.
  • Indirect GHG emissions (Categories 3-6): GHG emissions required by the Programme that occur because of the activities of the company but occur from sources not owned or controlled by the company.

In the 2021/2022 reporting year there have been changes across our emissions profile, with some categories seeing an increase and others a decrease. There are also additional sources added, including employee modes of commute and working from home data.

Overall, our total emissions for 2021/2022 were 876.73 tCO2e, which is 18% lower than last year’s total and 2% lower than our base year total in 2018/2019.

Against our base year there has been an increase in absolute emissions from Category 1 and 2 of 14%. Category 1 emissions from transport this year were the lowest since our base year. This is in part due to the lengthy lockdown seen in Auckland over the reporting period, as well as changed behaviour and practices around remote working and meetings which have arisen as a result of the pandemic. Category 3 emissions increased due to the addition of employee commuting. Emissions associated with marina energy use increased. The reason for this is not clear and further work will need to be done to ascertain how this can be reduced.