About · The Partner for Climate Action

Expertise meets technology

We are a team of scientists, consultants and developers with one mission: to give businesses the technology and expertise to confidently manage their path to Net Zero. Founded in 2004, with 20+ years of real-world carbon management experience.

Carbon Footprint Ltd office
Founded in 2004

Expertise meets technology

We are neither a traditional consultancy that bolts on technology, nor a tech company that lacks deep expertise. We are the seamless integration of both.

Guided by unmatched expertise

Founded in 2004, we are the UK's original carbon management experts. Our 20+ years of real-world, scientific experience is the foundation of everything we do.

Powered by a world-class platform

Our expertise is scaled through our integrated suite of platforms — Sustrax, CRISP, CaDI and Carbon Marketplace (COMP) — the digital operating system for your entire climate strategy.

Carbon Footprint Ltd is

Reducing emissions at source

We make recommendations and set targets to reduce carbon and energy spend in your business.

Challenging global industries

We launched and run the Freedom Flight Prize — for the 1st carbon-free flight across the Atlantic.

Freedom Flight Prize

Committed to environment & quality

ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certified. We reduce our own emissions with Net Zero targets and support carbon projects worldwide.

Leading in the Voluntary Carbon Market

Founding members of the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for carbon offsetting.

Committed to learning

We run the Carbon Academy for peer-group learning, frequently give talks, and contribute papers to journals.

Highly recognised

We have won numerous awards, host the web's most popular carbon calculators, and are a chosen partner for European funding programmes that benefit our clients.

The Freedom Flight Prize

Managing today's climate impact is only half the battle. We are proud founders and supporters of the Freedom Flight Prize — a multi-million-pound prize to accelerate the development of zero-carbon passenger aircraft. When you partner with us, you help support the groundbreaking technology that will protect our planet for generations to come.

Freedom Flight Prize
Zero-carbon aviation

Don't just take our word for it

Trusted by hundreds of organisations, from SMEs to blue-chip corporations.

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Working with Carbon Footprint is great. They're supportive, collaborative, and able to apply their knowledge to help add value to our carbon reporting processes. They've also helped us navigate the world of offsets, enabling us to continue a robust journey as a net zero carbon business.

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Having worked with the team for a number of years now on our carbon reporting verification, the experience is always effective and efficient. I value the expertise we receive and trust the team's judgment entirely.

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From our first carbon assessment in 2019, Carbon Footprint have been a pleasure to work with and have played a major part in shaping our sustainable business practices... they make them an invaluable resource and a highly trusted business partner.

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The audit carried out by Carbon Footprint was very useful in measuring how far we need to go to achieve carbon net zero by our target date of 2030.

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It was a pleasure working with Carbon Footprint. They made the process incredibly straight forward and gave excellent advice and support throughout our journey.

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An efficient service providing external accreditation to our carbon measuring.

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We have found Carbon Footprint and the tools available from them to be an invaluable resource to assist in our Net Zero journey. Knowledgeable, friendly and constructive in their advice and guidance – a pleasure to work with.

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Using Sustrax MX was simple and straightforward. So much more efficient than reporting as we have done in the past. What was previously a somewhat onerous task will now be easy and not in the slightest bit daunting.

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We have been working with Carbon Footprint for 3 years now and they continue to support us with guidance, training and a friendly, knowledgeable team.

Year-round expert support

Our dynamic team of environmental consultants, climate change engineers and scientists provides expert, year-round support.

  • Maximised reductions — brimming with ideas to maximise carbon reductions & ROI.
  • A dedicated project manager — whether you spend £1,000 or £100,000.
  • A personal approach — to carbon & sustainability management.
The Carbon Footprint Ltd team planting trees
A breath of fresh air

What we do for the industry

Clients say working with us is 'a breath of fresh air' and 'like having an extra team member on board'. We make the work fuss-free, meaningful, rapid and cost-effective — and we work tirelessly to shape the agenda for environmental and carbon management for businesses.

  • Quality Assurance Standard — founding members of the QAS.
  • Carbon Academy — we run it & frequently publish papers.
  • Sustainable Business Network — we chair the SBN in our region.
  • Government advice — input and advice on low carbon legislation.

Credentials you can verify

ISO 14001 Certified ISO 9001 Certified Sustainable Business Network ICO Registered IEMA Member BSI Associate Consultancy Programme

Ready to manage your path to Net Zero?

Contact our team to discuss carbon management for your business — with today's best tools and 20+ years of expertise.

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