How to reduce the carbon footprint of your café
We run through some simple actions that you can take in order to reduce your café’s carbon footprint.
Net Zero is overwhelming. With so much information out there, it’s hard to know where to start.
That’s where we come in.
With a select range of partners, we guide you on your journey to net zero with simple, practical advice.
With every step, you’re closer to Net Zero and build a sustainable, resilient and stronger business.
With regular reporting and accountability, you track your improvements in performance over time.
Achieving carbon reductions in your business is tough. It’s even tougher when all of the guidance and information out there is for large corporate and companies.
As a small business owner, you lack the resources to dedicate a team member to purely look at your sustainability.
Our approach is simple: no bullshit.
Net Zero advice is different for different companies. It’s difficult enough with all of the jargon out there to know what action to take.
Our guidance is always action-orientated and appropriate for your business and scale.
Reducing your environmental impact doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.
We can’t do this on our own. As a community of small businesses, Small99 has a range of selected partners we work with to deliver affordable Net Zero advice, and give you the tools you need.
If you’re interested in learning more, book a discovery call above and we’ll tlak through any concerns and understnd more about your business.
By taking a benchmark before work begins, we can track your performance and understand the progress made.
Once we have identified high-carbon areas of your business, we can work on reducing your emissions and work with specialist partners to deliver real change.
On the few specific areas that we can't address right now, we plan for temporary offsetting activity to mitigate the remaining emissions balance.
What are you emissions are you generating that you have direct control over?
What emissions do you have influence over, such as energy consumption?
Where others are emissions sitting in your business that are of concern but you might not know about?
Tackling emissions now ensure your business is more resilient to Political, Legal and Social changes in the future.
By achieving net zero before others, you will become a respected leader in your industry and gain fantastic stories to share with customers and PR.
Carbon taxes are coming. The sooner you remove the carbon from your company, the less risk you have to future financial costs.
Apart from saving the planet, there’s plenty of solid business reasons to reduce your emissions.
The carbon in your business is a risk. The next few decades will see Carbon priced more and more, and it’ll become expensive to carry on as normal.
We’re already seeing early indications of this with the Plastic Packaging Tax coming in 2022, where non-recycled plastic is taxed.
By acting on your emissions now, you’ll reduce the risk in your business.
You’ll be running a more resilient and sustainable business as a result. Not just environmentally, but financially too.
As businesses begin to grapple with their Scope 3 emissions, they want to align with other companies also working to reduce their emissions.
A third of large companies are taking carbon emissions into account when making decisions, and this will extend to who they chose to work with.
Having clear commitment and action to Net Zero ensures you’re in with a better chance of winning contracts and customers than if you were to do nothing.
Making real progress also gives you plenty of vital stories to share with customers. Consumers are becoming more demanding by the day, and taking action now ensures you’re well aligned to continue attracting and retaining customer loyalty, rather than having your hand forced.
Think of your emissions like your financial budgets.
Too much spend can increase risk in your business make it unprofitable.
Too much carbon emissions increases the risk of future taxation, negative PR and makes your business unsustainable long term.
We run through some simple actions that you can take in order to reduce your café’s carbon footprint.
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