GROUNDED RESEARCH – SUSTAINABILITY POLICY AND PLEDGE

Published 30 March 2026

Grounded is committed to be carbon negative through reducing emissions, using sustainable inputs and carbon offsetting.

Emission Reduction

• All business travel on public transport or electric cars
• Office heaters on timers and seasonally adjusted
• Paperless accounting and filing

Sustainable Inputs

• Energy tariff on 100% renewables (Eon.next)
• Office consumables (Coffee, toilet roll, paper) only bought from sustainable sources (Fair Trade, B-Corps, FSC)
• Tech (IT/phones) only purchased when existing assets not fit for purpose

Carbon Offsetting

• 60 indigenous English trees planted annually (by the team) on Broadpool Farm (PE28 2XR) to become Carbon Negative.
  • Annual business Carbon Emissions estimated at 4T/year (Scope 3)
    • Electric car – 2T average per year for manufacturing/parts/fluids
    • Office Materials – 2T per year full carbon cost (Across supply chain for Paper/Furniture/Tech/train travel). Includes server/data costs an 50GB per year.
    • EoN Carbon Zero tariff
  • Average Carbon Offset per tree of 200kg (lifetime)
• Based on 80% success rate of tree planting, this produces a long term carbon negative effect (5T CO2e per year)