# Koos

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Professional Services
**Website:** https://www.koos.agency
**Sustainability page:** https://koos.agency/tool/design-sustainability/

## Sustainability story

At Koos we design for positive impact. Besides focusing on relevant design projects, we extend this to include being critical of our own behaviour. Think: providing vegetarian lunches, organizing volunteer activities as a team, travelling by train as much as possible, etc. Our goal is to have as little (negative) impact on the environment as possible. We continue to do this by also measuring, offsetting and reducing our footprint.

## Emissions (2024)

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

- Scope 1: 40 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 23 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 309 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 372 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per FTE — FTE

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 11,200 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 6,650 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7,120 |
| 2023 | 40 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 309 | 8,266.67 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2022 Scope 1 & 2 emissions 50% by 2030 (completion: 0%)
- We commit to reducing 2022 Scope 3 emissions by cutting the amount of carbon per # of FTEs 50% by 2030. (completion: 0%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from employee commuting by allowing employees to work remotely. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from purchased goods by changing purchasing policies to incentivise green purchasing behaviour. (source: Goods & services, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will eliminate single-use company swag (source: Goods and services, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will reduce employee commuting emissions by implementing remote-optional or work from home policies for all employees. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from business travel by becoming flight-efficient and using the train for business travel whenever possible. (source: Business travel, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition current software and servers to lower-carbon software and servers across 10% of our data. (source: Software and servers, target: Q3 2024, completion: 75%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy to reduce business travel by 15% through requiring lower-carbon forms of transportation for all employees. (source: Business travel, target: Q3 2024, completion: 60%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 15% fossil fuel-powered shipping to electric shipping across suppliers. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q3 2025, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Commit to offering food products at the office that are 99% vegetarian. (source: Goods & services, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce total business travel by 25% for all employees by incentivizing virtual meetings (source: Business travel, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy to extend the lifespan of laptops by 25% in all offices (source: Capital expenditures, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $5,580

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

### Projects
- [BVC] Uganda Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $5,580 — type: Cookstoves, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Uganda, provider: Patch

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