In 2023, we used the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Simplified Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator released in May 2023—and designed to help small business and low emitter organizations estimate and inventory their annual greenhouse gas emissions—to estimate our firm’s operational carbon footprint for the reporting year 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023. This is the first time we carried out such an assessment.
Fermat’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions for the reporting period 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 were estimated as follows:
Scope 1 Emissions: 11 CO2-e (metric tons)
Scope 2 Emissions (Location-Based): 45 CO2-e (metric tons)
Scope 2 Emissions (Market-Based): 45 CO2-e (metric tons)
Total Scope 1 & Scope 2 Emissions: 56 CO2-e (metric tons)
We plan to repeat this analysis annually going forward with a view to learning and identifying areas where we can manage our environmental footprint as our small team, and the number of staff using our Westport CT office, grows.