To conclude our carbon revolution series, Dezeen is today committing to becoming a net-zero business within four years.
We intend to become net-zero by 2025, which is 25 years ahead of the 2050 deadline set by the Paris Agreement.
We'll be joining a small but growing band of companies in the architecture and design sector that have pledged to achieve net-zero emissions.
These include Danish furniture brand Takt, Swedish cosmetics brand Forgo plus a handful of UK architects that have joined RIBA's climate challenge.
This pledge is the result of months of work following the realisation back in February that our business has a huge carbon footprint. Since then, we've been learning about emissions and what to do about them. Our carbon revolution series emerged directly from this research.
We have adopted the strict definition of "net-zero" as set out in the lexicon provided by the UN's Race to Zero campaign.
According to this definition, net-zero is achieved when "an actor reduces its emissions following science-based pathways, with any remaining GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions attributable to that actor being fully neutralized by like-for-like removals (eg permanent removals for fossil carbon emissions) exclusively claimed by that actor, either within the value chain or through purchase of valid offset credits."
Simply put, this means that we will first reduce emissions caused by Dezeen itself, by our supply chain and by our customers to the lowest possible...