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Real results from businesses on their journey to net zero.
Accent Services
Accent Services, an HVAC and mechanical firm in Shepperton, began measuring emissions at a major FM client's request and signed up to Platinum with NCZ, consolidating multiple accreditations into one partnership. As one of the first Daikin Decarbonised Partners with D1 Plus status, it locked in a 2024 baseline, finding around 80% of emissions in Scope 3.
Kingdom Services Group
Kingdom Services Group, a UK multi-service facilities group, achieved Platinum certification. Partnering with SustainIQ and NCZ, more complete data made its 2024 emissions higher than 2023 by capturing well-to-tank and transmission factors, prompting a 2024 baseline reset around a 42% Scope 1 and 2 cut by 2033 and net zero by 2050. Certification strengthens its tenders.
Think FM
Think FM, a London luxury-sector facilities firm of over 20 years with around 250 staff, no company vehicles and no work outside the M25, engaged NCZ to evidence long-standing low-impact practices. It progressed from Gold to Platinum, working through the challenge of collecting travel data from a remote, multilingual workforce, and now uses certification in every pitch.
BELFOR UK
BELFOR UK, a restoration supplier to major insurers, engaged NCZ after clients requested SBTi commitments. It advanced from Silver to Gold to Platinum within two years, commissioned lifecycle assessments across its 10,000 annual projects, switched to 100% renewable electricity and hybrid vehicles, and became a carbon-neutral-supplier trailblazer prompting Europe-wide change.
Insightful Environments and NCZ: A Partnership Focused on Precision, Practicality, and Purpose
Insightful Environments, already calculating its own footprint across London, Leeds and Rainham, engaged NCZ purely for third-party verification and annual high-quality carbon-credit procurement. An EcoVadis Gold business, IE credits reductions to internal work and targets halving emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050, valuing NCZ as a trusted enabler rather than a strategy driver.
How Knightsbridge Property Services Turned Carbon Accountability into a Competitive Advantage
Knightsbridge Property Services, an SME construction and property contractor in the South of England, used NCZ's ISO 14064-aligned carbon accounting to reach Gold certification within three years. Insights reshaped its fleet and remote-work decisions, its verified report differentiates tenders, and it offers carbon-neutral projects while aiming for Platinum.
Environmental technology
Janitorial Express
Janitorial Express, a 35-year London cleaning and hygiene supplier, worked with NCZ to tackle Scope 3 across 400-plus suppliers, categorising thousands of products into seven material groups with cost-based metrics fed from its ERP into Power BI reports. Its local-only delivery, EV transition and planned customer portal turned carbon reporting into commercial advantage.
Environmental technology
No More Bottles
No More Bottles, a UAE plastic-free water provider, reached Gold certification with a 70.02 tCO2e footprint, 81.94% Scope 3. Quick wins included route optimisation, renewable tariffs and supply-chain engagement. Footprint insights helped answer growing customer ESG questions and prompted 2025 plans to reduce website emissions.
FM - hard services
YorPower Ltd
YorPower, a UK back-up power specialist trading since 1956, achieved NCZ Silver certification with a baseline of 356.86 tCO2e, 54% of it Scope 3. NCZ recommended fleet, renewable-energy and travel quick wins, and YorPower offset via a CDM hydro project to reach carbon neutrality, progressing to Gold with a service lifecycle assessment.
Recruitment
Executive Network Group
Executive Network Group, a recruitment firm established in 1999, achieved Silver certification with a 102.14 tCO2e baseline, 85.5% Scope 3. Quick wins covered fleet transition, renewable electricity and supply-chain engagement. Gold certification is the next step, enabling ENG to report the specific carbon impact of each placement to clients.
FM - security
Corps Security Ltd
Corps Security, a security social enterprise founded in 1859, reached Silver certification with a 476.15 tCO2e footprint, 68.7% Scope 1. ISO 14001-certified since 2009 and carbon neutral since 2019 via Verified Carbon Standard offsets and UK tree planting, it targets net zero by 2050 and is electrifying its fleet, with a full lifecycle assessment next.
FM - cleaning
Birkin Cleaning Services Ltd
Birkin Cleaning Services achieved Gold certification with a 461.40 tCO2e footprint, 79.3% Scope 3. It cut electricity emissions by almost 65% year on year, is transitioning vehicles to hybrid and electric and engaging suppliers, enabling client-specific reporting of a carbon-neutral service. A supply-chain compliance programme and Platinum certification are next.
Estate Agents
Arden Estate Agents
Arden Estate Agents, an independent agency founded in 2010 with seven offices and 48 staff, achieved Silver certification with a 75.4 tCO2e footprint, 72.6% Scope 3. After quick wins in travel, commuting, renewable energy and procurement, it offset unavoidable emissions to become, in March 2023, a certified carbon-neutral estate agent.
FM - projects
Agilité Solutions
Agilité Solutions, an international commercial interiors specialist, reached Gold certification with a 654.65 tCO2e footprint, 98.06% Scope 3. Quick wins spanned supply-chain analysis, fuel tracking, waste reduction and renewable electricity. A full lifecycle assessment is underway to model contract-by-contract emissions for detailed client-level insight.
Logistics
Mission Global
Mission Global, an event and project freight logistics partner, achieved Silver certification with a 102.75 tCO2e baseline, 96.26% Scope 3. NCZ recommended supplier engagement, greener travel and virtual meetings, and Mission Global offset all identified emissions for carbon neutrality, with Gold certification and a service lifecycle assessment as next steps.
Golf
Kings Norton Golf Club
Kings Norton Golf Club, founded in 1892, reached Gold certification with a 671 tCO2e footprint, 70.5% Scope 3. Quick wins delivered strong returns: an electricity basket product cut costs by £100k a year, a remote lighting system for 42 floodlights repaid in under a year, and solar within five years, alongside a five-year capex plan.