At allbranded, sustainability is paramount; for the future of our planet and its people. We truly believe the fate of our precious environment is dependent on a sense of collective unity. Therefore, we strive to promote a vivid awareness of a balanced lifestyle in our own team, aswell as environmentally conscious consumption of our scarce resources. Our offer of bicycles, paper reduction, and vegan alternatives are just the tip of the iceberg.

Time is not on our side. Not only are we dedicated to reducing and offsetting our CO2 emissions, but we also want to make our planet green again. That’s why, with our customers support, we are planting trees to let the rainforest, the lungs of the earth, breathe once more.

You cannot improve if you don't know where you are standing. Use either our build-in carbon estimator or work with a third party to analyze your carbon footprint. Afterwards offset your footprint and upload the certificate as a confirmation.

Decide how you want to measure your emissions

Measure your scope 1 and 2 emissions

Map and estimate your scope 3 emissions

Update your calculation from year-to-year

Document your approach and communicate publicly

Measure your emissions across Scope 1, 2 and 3

Decide about your offset strategy

Invest into carbon offsets

Remove carbon emissions that you can‘t reduce 

Evaluate the current landscape and decide if you want to move the service provider or only the region

Make a migration plan and move your services

Move to a cloud provider or region with 100% renewable energy

Find a hosting service that is powered by 100% renewable energy

Check and get the label of the Green Web Foundation

Get support and certification from projects working on the topic

Prefer a hosting service that runs on Renewable Energy and not on Renewable Energy Credits 

Host your website with a provider powered by 100% renewable energy

Talk to your hosting company and research if they are running on 100% renewable energy

Switch to a provider with 100% renewable energy or make sure that your office with the servers is running on renewable energies

Run your own digital infrastructure on 100% Renewable Energy

Meat and dairy consumption cause a lot of carbon emissions. By minimizing carbon-intensive food and drinks you can decrease your footprint significantly.

Make sure that:
- you don't serve any meat
- you offer a plant-based milk option or serve only plant-based milk
- you minimize food waste
We can't control what people eat at home but, as a company, we can decide what to buy based on our values.

Some vegan and local catering providers for your reference: 
 [Pele Mele](http://www.pele-mele-berlin.de/catering/), [Fake Gourmet](https://www.facebook.com/fakegourmetberlin/), [Yummy Mummy](https://www.facebook.com/yummymummyberlin/?hc_location=ufi), [Goodies Deli](https://goodies-deli.com/pages/catering), [Hummus Dealer](https://www.facebook.com/hummusdealer/), [Beets and Roots](https://www.beetsandroots.de/catering), [My Goodness](https://www.mygoodnessberlin.com/), [No Tiers Vegan Catering](https://www.facebook.com/NoTiersVeganCatering/), [TRJFP](https://www.facebook.com/TRJFPBerlin/), [Gayaya](https://www.gayaya-berlin.de/en/home-en.html#catering-en), [Smunch](https://www.smunch.co/).
These projects are based in Berlin, but for those of you who are based elsewhere, they give you a general idea of what’s available and you can find similar options in your area.
 
Mark this action as completed if you do not  cater meat in your office and during business events.

Vegan catering and snacks

Introduce a plant-rich diet in the workplace

There are many established as well as new banks that offer similar services to their traditional competitors, except for one important difference: They invest your money according to high sustainability standards.

Your corporate finance can influence the climate more than you think. Use this power:
- Look at how the company capital is secured, such as where it gets its project financing and loans. Where possible, move this business to [banks](https://www.triodos.co.uk/about-us) that refuse to invest in businesses dependent on fossil fuels.
- Talk to your accountants. They can help set up systems to measure and manage climate related externalities. They can support your finance team in raising and allocating the funds your organization needs for transition and adaptation, embedding greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions within your organization’s decision-making processes, and accurately tracking and reporting performance against reduction targets. 
- If your company operates in the financial sector, ensure your financial investments support [low carbon initiatives](http://fossilfreefunds.org).

Use a "green" bank for your corporate banking 

Evaluate the existing landscape of sustainable banking in your country

Invest directly into renewable energy and help with the energy transition

Switch to a sustainable bank

Make sure that:
- you have a company-wide recovery and recycling program that includes: paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal, and composting
- you recycle waste not only from the kitchen but also all papers in your working spaces, cartons at your warehouse, etc.
- your utility service works with all types of waste after you separate it, so it goes into the correct waste sorting centers.

Proper waste separation system

What you can do to print less:
- implement electronic signature systems where possible
- instead of printing reports before business meetings, use more screens in meeting rooms
- decrease the amount of pages by reducing font or page border sizes of regularly printed documents: contracts, agreements, etc.
- add a reminder to print less in your corporate signatures
- as a default setting, double-sided printing in black and white is recommended.

Plus, you can recycle your printer cartridges using a free recycling box from [Caritas](https://www.caritas.de/spendeundengagement/andershelfen/caritasbox/caritasboxstartseite). 

Minimal printing policy

Mark this action as completed if you will buy office supplies made from recycled materials, produced and delivered in an eco-friendly way from now on. 

Recycled paper is 100% made from used paper, saving resources and water. Although the recycled paper is no longer pure white, it is also free of peroxides, sodium carbonate, and sodium hydroxide. These chemicals are used both in the production of fresh fibre paper and for bleaching paper. Recycled paper has two to three times lower energy consumption during production. 

At [Memo](http://www.memo.de), [EarthHero](https://earthhero.com/product-category/home/office-supplies/), or [GreenPicks](https://www.greenpicks.de/en/office-supplies-stationery/) you can find all of your sustainable office supplies.

Eco-friendly office supplies: paper, post-its, pens, business cards, etc. 

One of the projects where you can find cleaning products and soap without microplastic: [Zero Waste Era](https://www.zerowasteera.com)

Mark this action as completed if you will buy only eco-friendly cleaning products and soap for your office from now on. 

Conscious office cleaning: eco-friendly cleaning products, minimal bins and plastic bags

Our aim here is to minimize the delivery footprint and support local businesses.
Only purchase food and drinks with verified environmental standards. 


 Responsible food and drink: local, organic, seasonal

These purchases can influence your carbon footprint significantly. 
- implement a repair-first policy: it's better to fix a laptop than buy a new one
- regularly calculate and check the footprint created by your equipment purchases (some companies, such as [Apple](https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/13-inch_MacBookPro_PER_may2019.pdf) and [Dell](https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/CorpComm_Docs/en/carbon-footprint-latitude-7490.pdf), share data about their products’ footprint on their websites)
- when you need to buy things for your new office, don't just pay attention to them being made of ‘natural’ materials, but also to their production footprint
- utilize old and broken equipment in specially designated places.

Responsible use of office equipment and furniture

Here are some ideas on how to make your marketing materials more eco-friendly:
- at conferences, fairs, and festivals, consider digital ways to interact with potential customers: screens, VR & AR, QR-codes, projections, e-business cards, and catalogs, etc.
- if you do choose to produce some giveaways, opt for materials with less of an end-of-life process
- order production locally to avoid causing additional emissions through deliveries
- improve your planning process to minimize waste after events.

Minimal giveaways: t-shirts, flyers, stickers, etc.

What you can do:
- encourage your colleagues to order food delivery less: organize lunch in your office, subsidize lunch in the nearest cafes, or arrange food delivery in reusable containers,
- make sure you use glasses in your office and wash them instead of one-use plastic cups,
- buy beverages in returnable glass bottles,
- buy office snacks in bigger packages with less plastic.

Minimal plastic waste: no plastic cups and bottles, reduced food delivery waste

Install low-flow faucets, toilets, and urinals in your office. 
Low-flow should meet or exceed the following EPA WaterSense standards: faucets use a maximum of [1.5 gpm](http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/products/bathroom_sink_faucets.html), toilets - [max 1.28 gallons per flush](http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/products/toilets.html).


Water conservation

Make your office more sustainable

By supporting the Climate Demo's of the Fridays for Future movement, you can help to increase the pressure on politicians. Many big companies like Atlassian, Flixbus, Kickstarter and many more do it already. Join them! 

Give your employees a few free hours or half a day off to go to important climate strikes.

Share the news on social media 

Use your Marketing channels and social media reach to support big climate demonstrations.

Participate in the strike as a team event

Use Fridays for Future toolkits 

Make yourself visible during the event

Actively support climate strikes

Cutting down on your flights and moving towards train travel has a significant impact on your carbon footprint.

For domestic routes under five hours by train, take the train.
Railway stations are often more centrally located than airports, which makes arrival and departure easier and reduces the footprint of using taxis.  

Mark this action as completed as soon as you change your corporate travel policy accordingly.


Trains over planes policy

For intercontinental travel, a seat in business class produces __two to three times__ as much CO2 as an economy seat. 
First-class seats even produce up to __six times__ as much CO2.

Mark this action as completed as soon as you change your corporate travel policy and make sure that you buy only economy class tickets from now on.

Economy class flights only

Use video conferencing whenever possible 

Setup a policy for responsible business travel

Switching to a 100% renewable energy provider for your office energy is a simple but effective step to reduce your company's carbon footprint. It is important to use a reliable provider which transparently communicates the orgins of its energy.

Switch to a 100% renewable energy provider, including electricity and other energy consumption from heating, hot water, etc. Often it’s the most impactful thing companies can do immediately. 

Even if you lease your office, it's still possible to switch, but it requires some time and effort.

We recommend the following green electricity providers in Germany: [Greenpeace Energy](http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/products/toilets.html), [Naturstrom](https://www.naturstrom.de/geschaeftskunden/), [Elektrizitäts Werke Schönau](https://www.ews-schoenau.de/ews/energiedienstleistungen/angebote-fuer-gewerbekunden/) 

Note: The difference in savings from the future footprint offsetting will often be more than a slight increase in energy cost. 

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