Achieving Net Zero Carbon
In recent years, the urgency to tackle climate change has been growing with the issue being at the forefront of global leaders’ attention at many political conferences.
While we need world leaders to take urgent action to tackle climate change, we all need to recognise the importance of reducing our emissions and managing the impacts of our activities on climate change.
Carbon neutral care home
In 2021, Oakland Care became the first UK care home group to be certified as carbon neutral. This important certificate has been achieved for the fifth year running in 2025, and we remain the only UK care home group to have invested in doing so.
For Oakland Care, carbon neutrality is just one small step in our sustainable journey to net zero.
While we work to set our targets, we are conscious of the urgency to act now. That’s why we are investing in innovative projects throughout our business to reduce carbon emissions and our overall carbon footprint.
Net Zero Carbon
By focusing on achieving Net Zero Carbon, we are supporting the following UN Sustainable Development Goal:
13 Climate Action
Our Commitments
- We are dedicated to setting science-based targets and maintaining our carbon neutral certification.
- We will maintain our Greenmark Level 3 status.
- We give back over 2000 hours of team time to local sustainability projects each year.
- We plant over 1500 trees annually.
- We evaluate our procurement efficiency, leading to fewer deliveries each year.
- We continue to send zero waste to landfill.
- We continually review our chemical provision to reduce the use of hazardous products.
- All of our homes are designed with at least 25% of garden space dedicated to biodiversity.
- All of our construction projects are certified by BREEAM.
- We only use FSC certified timber for all construction projects.
- We invest in specialist training to ensure expertise across the business and all team members complete mandatory training on improving sustainability.
- We continue our drive towards digitalisation and have significantly reduced paper use.
Our Sustainability Journey
Carbon Neutrality – In 2021, Oakland Care became the first UK care home group to be certified as carbon neutral. Discover how we are investing in innovative projects throughout our business to reduce carbon emissions.
Biodiversity – We have been working with our residents to deliver biodiversity projects across our care homes.
Procurement – We have implemented high sustainability requirements through our tendering processes with suppliers to ensure that the supplies we procure are produced and delivered with a lower level of environmental impact.
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