Agriculture

AF Group

AF is the UK's largest agricultural buying group with more than 3,500 shareholder Members who collectively are farming over a million hectares of land across the UK.
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Certified
1 year

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Highlights

Measure

Location-based total carbon footprint

Reporting Boundary: Norwich operations (Honingham Thorpe, Colton, Norwich, NR9 5BZ)

Emission Sources: Electricity, T&D Losses, LPG, Water, Waste, Fleet, Business Travel, Paper, Homeworking (excluded from footprint)

Reporting Period: 01 Nov 2021 – 31 Oct 2022

99.6 tC0₂e

Location-based total carbon footprint per employee

1.0 tC0₂e

Market-based total carbon footprint

106.5 tC0₂e

Market-based total carbon footprint per employee

1.1 tC0₂e

Engage

FTE employees

We engage our employees and wider stakeholders to unlock their talent and knowledge to drive year on year progress in sustainability.

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Communicate

UN Sustainable Development Goals

We recognise that transparent communication is essential for transformational change and we quantifiably contribute to 7 SDGs.

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Certification story

AF Group have achieved the Planet Mark certification. In this Decade of Action, the company want to ensure that they are a force for good: positively transforming society and the planet.

Looking to strengthen its environmental credentials, the company is working with Planet Mark to reduce its carbon emissions and share its journey with its community to inspire others. By being more strategic about its environmental responsibility, it will be able to increase its positive impact significantly and hopes to encourage continual improvements within its community.

Through Planet Mark, AF Group have protected endangered rainforest thanks to Cool Earth; a charity working alongside rainforest communities to halt deforestation. Its pledge through Cool Earth directly supports the Asháninka community in Central Peru.

The group has also helped the Eden Project – an educational charity building connections with each other and the living world, exploring how we can work together towards a better future.

Future targets

Reduce carbon emissions by at least 2.5% each year

To recertify next year AF Group must reduce emissions by 2.5%.

Aim to reduce carbon emissions by 5% each year

A 5% year-on-year reduction is the target reduction recommended by Planet Mark.

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