Sustainability policy
Sustainability policy: applying it to ourselves
SRS Report explains how UK organisations measure and report their emissions, so it should be able to say how it treats its own.
This page sets out the footprint, the habits that keep it small, the standard used as a reference, and the claims this site will not make.
The footprint
Online, small, and mostly out of sight
Everything SRS Report does happens online.
Its direct footprint is the servers that host the site and the laptops the site is built on.
There are no premises of its own to heat, light or fill, and no fleet.
No footprint figure is published here, because a number without a measured, cited basis would be exactly the kind of claim this site asks readers not to make.
What we do about it
Four working habits
Pages are kept light: fewer heavy scripts and media files mean less energy per visit, and the site loads no analytics or advertising tags at all.
Meetings are online by default, and travel happens only when meeting in person genuinely matters.
Where there is a choice of supplier, the preference is for those that publish their own emissions data.
This policy is reviewed once a year, and whenever anything material about how the work is done changes.
How we report
Below every threshold, using the standards anyway
The business behind this site is well below the size at which Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting applies — the SECR thresholds set out who is caught.
The UK’s new standards are voluntary for a company like this one: GOV.UK guidance makes them available to any entity that chooses to use them, and the FCA’s final rules apply them only to listed companies in scope.
We still use the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards as our reference for how a company should think about climate-related risks and emissions, so that the habits are in place long before any obligation is.
For organisations that do report, the site’s UK SRS reporting guidance walks through what the published standards ask for.
Habits are cheaper to build before an obligation arrives than after it.
And a site that explains reporting should practise what its pages describe.
What we will not claim
No carbon neutral, no net zero
SRS Report does not describe itself as carbon neutral or net zero, and will not make an environmental claim it cannot evidence.
The CMA’s Green Claims Code asks that environmental claims be truthful, clear, complete, fair in comparison, based on the full life cycle, and substantiated.
Those rules reach marketing as much as reporting — green claims in go-to-market explains why vague words like “eco-friendly” are the ones that get challenged.
Who owns this
One owner, specialists when needed
The founder of Fractional Quest Ltd owns this policy.
When specialist input is needed, it is brought in part-time for a defined piece of work — someone found through a fractional recruitment agency — rather than hiring full-time for a need that is part-time.
If you are looking for sustainability reporting consultants for your own organisation, the guide to sustainability consultancy explains what the work involves and how to choose.
Fractional Quest Ltd · Company No. 17322105 · 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ · hello@uksrs.org.uk
Sources
What this policy relies on
The standards used as a reference, the rules that decide who must use them, and the code that governs green claims.
- GOV.UK (Department for Business and Trade)UK Sustainability Reporting Standards — guidance
That UK SRS is available for voluntary use by any entity.
- GOV.UK (Department for Business and Trade)UK SRS S1 and UK SRS S2 — publication page
The standards used as this policy’s reference.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityPS26/19: Aligning listed issuers’ sustainability disclosures with international standards
The rules that apply UK SRS to listed companies — not to a company like this one.
- Competition and Markets AuthorityGreen Claims Code (CMA146)
Why this policy makes no claim it cannot evidence.
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