News & media Cordiant Certified Carbon Neutral+ by Carbon Footprint Ltd for 2022
Montreal: Cordiant Capital is pleased to announce it has achieved Carbon Neutral + accreditation, in partnership with Carbon Footprint Ltd, after verifying and offsetting emissions associated with operations for 2022.
For the second year in a row, Cordiant engaged Carbon Footprint Ltd to verify its carbon footprint assessment and supporting evidence, with the intention of offsetting emissions associated with operations. The external verification audit by Carbon Footprint Ltd was completed in accordance with ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gases: Specification with guidance for the verification and validation of greenhouse has statement’ and awarded Cordiant the CO2 Assessed Organisation certification.
Cordiant expanded the scope of assessment of its GHG emissions, covering Scope 1, Scope 2 and select Scope 3 categories associated with its London, Montreal and Luxembourg offices and employees, for the period 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. Upon receiving formal verification from Carbon Footprint, Cordiant decided to offset its verified emissions, as well as an additional 25%, to become a Carbon Neutral + Organisation.
Cordiant intends to offset emissions associated with operations on an annual basis.
About Carbon Footprint:
Carbon Footprint LTD believes in carbon reduction ‘at source’ as the gold standard for climate change mitigation. Carbon Footprint Ltd is an award-winning UK-based family-owned business, with a team of dedicated climate scientists, engineers and environmental consultants. As founding members of the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting, the company is a leading brand in environmental consultancy that serves to audit and offset organisations’ emissions. Carbon Footprint is ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certified and works in accordance with ISO 14064 to audit organisations’ emissions.
About Cordiant Capital
Cordiant is a specialist global infrastructure and real assets manager with a sector-led approach to providing growth capital solutions to promising mid-sized companies in Europe, North America and selected global markets. Since the firm’s relaunch in 2016, Cordiant–a partner-owned and -run firm–has developed a track record of exceeding mandated investment targets for our clients.
Cordiant focuses on the next generation of infrastructure and real assets: sectors (digital infrastructure, energy transition infrastructure and agriculture value chain) characterised by growth tailwinds; technological dynamism in how customers deploy the infrastructure Cordiant is financing; and a requirement for sustainability.
With a mix of managed funds offering both value-add and core strategies in equity and debt, our sector investment teams (combining seasoned industry executives with traditional private capital investors) work with investee companies to develop innovative, tailored financing solutions backed by a comprehensive understanding of the sector and demonstrated operating capabilities.
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