PJA is committed to taking urgent climate action and reducing our carbon footprint. In order to accelerate change within the business, PJA signed up to the Pledge to Net Zero with the ambition of halving our carbon emissions by 2030.
A part of this ongoing commitment, September was PJA’s ‘Carbon Month’. Over the month we focused on different ways we, as a company and as individuals, can reduce our carbon footprint. Dan Flello, who heads up our carbon zero task force tells us more:
“As part of what PJA do for the ‘day job’, it made sense to kick off Carbon Month by sharing a detailed travel plan we have created for each of our offices. Each travel plan has been carefully crafted to share advice on travel routes, alternatives to car use and car sharing, each tailored to their specific geographical location. With knowledge as power, letting the team know the options for travel to and from our offices is the beginning for choosing more carbon friendly options and techniques.
“While PJA shared their initiatives to reduce carbon as a company, as individuals everybody in our team was encouraged to make a ‘carbon commitment’. This change, small or large, would in someway reduce our carbon footprint. The commitments ranged from cycling to work once a week to making a sandwich for lunch rather than driving to get one. Every single one valuable in it’s own right and contributing to achieving net zero.
“We made our workspaces greener and tastier places, rolling our sleeves up and planting herbs right in our offices. Utilising windowsills and break out spaces, we planted fresh basil, parsley and rocket, which not only makes our offices look amazing but also helps to produce cleaner, fresher air and spruce up our lunches with a nutritional boost carrying little to no carbon footprint.
“PJA’s landscape architectural team held a workshop on utilising green spaces like gardens, balconies and planters, including the reuse of coffee grounds and tea leaves as a natural fertiliser for a vegetable planting. The team were encouraged to consider a ‘no dig’ approach to gardening to keep the carbon in, and to look at weeds as a garden’s way of protecting it’s soil with the ability to take carbon out of the atmosphere and into storage.
“The month finished with an open forum allowing any one in our team to share ideas and have their say on anything carbon. With the discussion rolling, it was an insight into the real commitment the PJA team have to cut carbon emissions.”
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