As the urgency to adjust and take action to tackle the climate change crisis becomes more pressing, Ocean in Bristol has taken drastic action to improve its carbon footprint.

As part of their ongoing efforts, the company recently focused their attention on the impact on the environment with a view to reducing overall carbon footprint.

Earlier this year, the estate agency completed a full and comprehensive ‘carbon audit’ of all of the companies that form the Ocean Property Services Group.

By far, Ocean’s biggest impact on the environment was shown to be our electricity usage (50.9%) and secondly their gas (31.9%). The company decided to reduce their overall impact by 50% by switching to electricity generated purely by renewable sources.

Ocean also switched its gas to being created predominantly from anaerobic digestion of food waste. You can read the full report here.

Following the audit results, they have also instructed Carbon Footprint Ltd to offset their total CO2e emissions to zero, supported in part by a UK Tree Planting Project. Carbon Footprint Ltd also plants trees in the Amazon as part of their Tree Buddying initiative.

Paul Harris, managing director at Ocean, said: “We are proud to say that this is not ‘greenwash’, we are learning and adapting as quickly as possible.

“We are by no means satisfied with offsetting our carbon and leaving it there. This is the start of our journey to improve how we operate to reduce the impact our business has on the environment and our community.”