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Have an conversation about the types of solutions you wish to support 

Set aside a budget 

Find a provider 

Support nature-based carbon removal

Prioritise projects with high integrity

Keep a net positive mentality 

Report on progress

Neutralise the emissions you can’t avoid by financing carbon removal

Decide on what metrics and data to collect

Invest in reporting software

Keep an eye out for future reporting requirements

Describe how climate is a material topic for your company

Disclose your yearly emissions

Disclose your targets 

Report concrete actions that have been taken to reduce your emissions

Share your broader activities in society

Have your reporting audited by a third party

Embed your climate disclosure in a relevant sustainability framework

Communicate your progress real-time

Consider reporting emissions and progress to the CDP

Publish your report externally

Report annually on your progress

Build your case

...and/or craft an inspirational narrative

Set up a meeting

Clarify your goals

Communicate effectively 

Share internally in your company

Externally with your ecosystem

Secure buy-in from your leadership team

Collect benefits and examples to convince others

Secure leadership buy-in

Review robustness criteria

Consider declaring an emergency

Join the Race to Zero campaign through a partner organisation

Don’t stop there – embrace a net positive mindset!

Share your commitment

Publicly commit to the 1.5°C ambition

Mark as done to participate

Join the Teams Challenge

Join our Time for Climate Action campaign

Have an internal conversation about the causes you wish to support 

Find a provider

Prioritise nature-based solutions

Ensure projects do not have adverse effects

Prioritise projects with an immediate effect

Ensure environmental and social safeguards

Contribute to global adaptation

Ensure robustness

Purchase credits

Compensate for your emissions to help society reach net zero faster

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 green hosting service

Get the Green Web Foundation label

Get certified

Choose service that runs on renewable energy and not renewable energy credits

Host your website with a provider that uses 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

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.

Assess your current bank's credentials

Decide on your approach

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).

Change your bank

Apply pressure on your current bank

Share with your stakeholders

Join public campaigns

Influence your partners and suppliers

Switch to a sustainable bank 

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

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 flights only

Use video conferencing whenever possible 

Set up a policy for sustainable business travel

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 it on on social media 

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

Participate as a team

Use existing toolkits 

Make yourself visible 

Actively support climate strikes

High consumption of animal-sourced foods (such as 
meat and diary products), comes with a heavy price for the environment. According to 
Project Drawdown, if 50–75% of people adopt a healthy diet with an overall reduction of meat consumption, at least 54.19–78.48 gigatons of emissions could be avoided from dietary change alone. 
In this action, you will find suggestions on how to introduce food policies that will make a plant-rich diet the new normal in your day-to-day work. Also, we will provide you with some tips on how to communicate this change in the right way to your colleagues.

Get the right people on board

Create a sustainable food task force. 

Understand where your colleagues stand

Identify areas of action 

Incentivize plant-rich meals

Produce sustainable food in the office

Incentivise local, organic and seasonal food consumption

Educate your team on the impact of meat-based diets

For remote teams: Give your employees sustainable food vouchers

Communicate internally and externally

Calculate emissions saved

Create clear labeling in your canteen and events

Communicate your choices to customers.

Introduce a plant-rich diet in the workplace

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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