Claremont Group Interiors achieves Planet Positive Certification

Published on Wed 30 Nov 2011

To demonstrate its commitment to the environment, Claremont Group Interiors, the UK’s leading office interior and fit-out company outside of London, has become a Planet Positive certified business.  Claremont and its employees are now engaged in a programme to reduce the carbon emissions of the business and are supporting the Planet Positive Schools Programme, which helps to engage children and their families with sustainability and creating links between businesses and schools.

Achieving Planet Positive certification is an international recognition of the highest sustainability standards. Claremont will now become a more sustainable business and have a positive environmental and social impact.  As part of the Planet Positive certification Claremont is following a four-step process including the measurement of the company's carbon footprint, and a commitment to reducing emissions by 5 percent on an annual basis.

“We believe that good business goes hand-in-hand with positive social and environmental actions,” says Ann Clarke, Group Design Director of Claremont. “Achieving and maintaining our Planet Positive certification demonstrates our commitment to reduce our carbon emissions and environmental impacts so that we can be good for the planet.   Our employees are a major part of this activity.  Working with Planet Positive will help us make the changes happen and create a better way of doing business.”

Using the internationally recognised Planet Positive Protocol methodology, in 2010/11 Claremont was able to reduce the total carbon footprint per employee by over 11 percent and the carbon footprint caused by building emissions from 39 to 21 percent based on the overall carbon footprint figure.

Notes about Planet Positive

Planet Positive is an international certification and environmental management system for businesses, products, buildings and services. Planet Positive certification signifies that a business is committed to reducing carbon emissions and improving sustainability.

Planet Positive goes beyond compliance into proof of action, behaviour change and encouraging businesses to support local and global sustainability projects.  Planet Positive has established a Foundation to develop, promote and fund sustainability projects locally, nationally and internationally.

Planet Positive’s online Business Certification process is designed specifically for SMEs and removes the need for consultant-based assessments, making sustainability fast, simple and cost-effective.

Based in the UK and North America, Planet Positive enables companies of all sizes to enhance their environmental credentials while driving similar change throughout their supply chain. A business, product, building or event is Planet Positive if it has measured and verified a net positive impact on the planet, its ecosystems and its people. Business, products, buildings, events or individuals carrying this mark are immediately identified as good for the planet.

The boundaries, methodologies and reduction criteria to achieve Planet Positive certification are laid out in the Planet Positive Protocol. This aligns with the best international standards in carbon measurement, reduction and investment for businesses, events, products and people. It is aligned with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBSCD) GHG Protocol, PAS 2050 (which builds on ISO 14040 and ISO 14044), BS 8901 and PAS 2060. In several instances Planet Positive chooses to go beyond these standards in terms of measurement, reduction and offsetting beyond neutral. Our protocol is reviewed quarterly by an independent Technical Committee to ensure that it maintains and upholds best global practice and transparency.