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Annual Report 2025 17
Annual Report 2025 17
Carbon Cutters
Pobl remains committed to reaching net zero by 2050. We recognise that achieving this goal
will necessitate a re‐imagining of our homes, our services and our work practices.
We began publishing our carbon footprint in 2020, and each annual statement has helped us
understand where we need to take action. In 2023, we partnered with Forvis Mazars to produce
and independently verify our report, and we have continued to work with them to refine our
approach and improve our understanding of our emissions footprint.
This year we have seen just under a 15% increase in our total emissions. This is driven by an
expansion of the reporting scope with the addition of new datasets in our Scope 3 waste and
commuting emissions, as well as some changes to the computational methodology.
We are pleased to see a reduction in Scope 1 emissions
from natural gas, driven by our investment in alternative
heating systems. The slight increase in emissions from our
fleet fuel reflects the higher number of repair and
maintenance jobs.
Scope 3 emissions linked to customer homes have
increased due to the handover of hundreds of new
properties and refinement of methodology. Supply chain
emissions have increased due to a significant rise in
development spending to support our growing pipeline
of partially‐completed new homes and the embodied
carbon associated with these works, together with refinement
of methodology to capture additional emissions areas.
Activity Reduction/
(increase)
Total emissions (tCO2e)
2024
Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3
5,156
634
2,027
24,880
37,451
4,076
74,224
5,436
593
2,098
24,779
29,056
2,782
64,744
280
(41)
71
(101)
(8,395)
(1,294)
(9,480)
Natural gas
Fleet and refrigerant gasses
Electricity
Customers’ homes
Supply chain
Business operations
Carbon Intensity
per home
under
management
Carbon Footprint
SCOPE 1
SCOPE 2
SCOPE 3 Supply Chain
SCOPE 3 Operations
SCOPE 3 Customer Homes
3.1
tCO2e
Total emissions in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (tCO2e)
2025