Fighting climate change

Working with, and using the internet, has an environmental impact (digital services create between 2-4% of global greenhouse gas emissions). The use of the internet is only going to increase over time as more and more businesses invest in online provision.

At Studio 24, we aim to minimise the impact of our business activities on the environment on a day-to-day basis and initiate good environmental working practices for building digital services for our clients.

• We measure our carbon footprint and put plans in place to reduce our carbon footprint wherever possible.
• We reduce the use of paper in our day-to-day work and have switched to sustainable office suppliers.
  
• We minimise waste by providing recycling facilities in the office and reusing or recycling old equipment.
• We use local suppliers wherever possible, to help reduce transport emissions and support the local economy.
• We review our hosting and other technology partners to ensure they are committed to using renewable energy and have sustainability policies. Our main partners Cloudflare and AWS are both committed to renewable energy.
• We encourage staff to use public transport for travelling to client meetings.
• All company cars are electric or hybrid.
• We build carbon-efficient websites and web applications, minimising the use of unnecessary tools and libraries that add page weight. We prioritise building optimised, accessible, robust HTML web pages which can be efficiently cached to reduce energy usage and give users better performance.
  
• We train staff on our environmental policy, the importance of sustainability, and techniques in how to build low carbon websites.
• We use Ecologi to offset emissions though we recognise it's more important to put in place real changes that encourage sustainability