# Knowmium

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Professional Services
**Website:** https://knowmium.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.climateneutral.org/brand/knowmium

## Sustainability story

As a communication consultancy that works in client locations around the globe, we understand the environmental impact business travelers create. As one small step towards mitigating that impact, we feel it is our responsibility to offset our carbon footprint both from travel, as well as from all other business activities, each year, by purchasing carbon credits, promoting environmental practices, and using digital and pollution-reducing materials as much as possible. We continue to create and run virtual-only programs with clients around the world and help other businesses create more virtual-only solutions to reduce travel and physical materials. In these ways we may align our personal environmental values to those of Knowmium.

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** Knowmium's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Knowmium attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate Project team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 16 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 16 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 24 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 24 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per dollar of revenue — dollar of revenue

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.93 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.15 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.17 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0.03 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to walk and take the subway, buses, or tram instead of taxis as much as possible when visiting clients or doing other business. (source: Business travel, target: Q2 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to continue allowing remote work and work from home with all our employees. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce our emissions associated with use of electricity at our office. (source: Purchased electricity., target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from business travel. (source: Business travel, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for 100% remote work for Hong Kong. We will also not lease another physical office. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — As more clients transition to in-person workshops, Knowmium consultants will prioritize digital training solutions like software solutions and apps instead of physical materials like paper-based and plastic-based supplies. (source: Goods & services, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce total business travel 25% for all employees by offering and promoting virtual programs, and in some case hybrid programs based in Hong Kong, for our clients' shorter worskhops. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 55%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce overall flights by 15% by combining programs and dates in the same city or country. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 75%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from paper and plastic training supplies by 50% through using digital solutions like virtual whiteboards and digital documents in physical training workshops (source: Operational waste, target: 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce total business travel by 75% for all part-time and support staff by allowing work-from-home when in-person work is not needed. (source: Employee commuting, target: 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 1** — We will not use a regular, large office space for employees or when working outside of clients' offices. Home offices, clients' offices,and remote locations will be maximized. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $410.28

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $46.28
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] LED light bulbs for home office (Energy efficiency, Efficiency & Electrification): $46.28
- [BVC] Hudson Tech HFC Reclamation Champaign (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $144 — type: Industrial, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
- [BVC] Canadian Valley Landfill Gas Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $220 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2023, location: Canada, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)

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