Environmental Policy

Environmental Policy

To share and communicate with Kensa employees and stakeholders, our commitment to be a responsible and sustainable business, complying fully with all environmental legislation and, where possible, exceeding the requirements and operating above and beyond t he level of compliance. The statement also broadcasts our aim to be a carbon neutral company by 2040 (scope 1 and 2 emissions), and to offset all historic scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050.

Our policy applies to all Kensa Ltd operations, including our contract operations, design, R&D, manufacturing, drilling operations, and our support functions, and are reviewed and if necessary, revised annually or if material changes require this at a different frequency. We will also encourage our supply chain partners to adopt, if not already doing so, our commitment to operating to the highest environmental standards and adopting a carbon neutral target.

To be an organisation recognised by our employees and external stakeholders for leading in and promoting environmental best practice and sustainability with an aim to work toward s being carbon neutral over the next decade .

We, the Chief Executive Officer, senior and functional managers, are committed to creating a workplace underpinned by sustainable principles and setting challenging targets and objectives in relation to our carbon footprint and t he protection of the environment . and elimination of our carbon footprint will be at the forefront of all the decisions we make. We will demonstrate this commitment by supporting our employees, and anyone working with us or affected by our activities, to consider environmental impacts on everything they do. We are committed to protecting the eco logy and natural environment of the sites we operate from, and in, and ensuring that our activities have a positive impact on the people, and the communities in which we operate. We will achieve this by using technological solutions where possible, implementing management systems, and monitoring and reviewing our effectiveness.

We are committed to continuously monitoring and improving environmental performance across all our activities and to create a sustainable environmental culture by:

• Ensuring Kensa Ltd has access to suitable personnel, either through direct appointments , or from external experts to enable the implementation of the policy and forming procedures and arrangements to achieve our commitment to the highest environmental performance,

• Deploying the best leadership and management structure required to deliver this policy,

• Complying with all legislation, regulations, codes of practice and other requirements relevant to our business,

• Achieving certification to ISO 14001 through continuous improvement.

• Raising the level of carbon reduction ambition within Kensa and working with our client base, to put plans and targets in place to work toward achieving a carbon neutral position, in our manufacturing, contract operations, drilling activities and ancillary services.

• Measuring our carbon footprint across all our activities.

• Putting in place initiatives to monitor the scope 3 emissions from our supply chain partners over the next 5 years.

• Striving to control and mitigate risks arising from our activities and seeking ways to minimise our environmental impact and carbon footprint,

• Acting to prevent pollution, from our site activities and manufacturing operations,

• Identifying and providing industry leading training to our employees,

• Ensuring progress towards greater sustainability by working collaboratively with our clients, and supply chain partners,

• Our projects will reflect our aspiration for ‘zero waste’, by adopting the hierarchy of waste management prioritization, Prevention, Re-Use, Recycling, Recovery, and finally, as a last resort Disposal

• Creating appropriate procedures and internal policies which reflect the best environmental practice and are suitable for implementation in all areas of the organisation,

• Creating engagement, consultation, and participation of our employees at all levels, on environmental and sustainability issues across all our businesses and within our sector and beyond,

• Investigating all environmental incidents and the swift implementation of corrective actions,

• Monitoring and assessing our environmental performance against formal objectives to verify that we are fully compliant with our own and external stakeholders’ standards, requirements, and expectations with continual improvement of the Environmental Management System (EMS) to enhance environmental performance.

The executive team is accountable for establishing this policy and for monitoring and reviewing the environmental performance of all operations and activities.

Kensa’s whole mission is fundamentally based on carbon reduction, in our 25 year history, Kensa has saved over 1 million tonnes of carbon through constructing networks of ground source heat pumps in social housing, new developments, schools, and other non domestic buildings, as well as in individual homes through installation partners. It is no wonder then, that Kensa is also totally committed to being an industry leader when it comes to controlling and reducing the adverse environmental impact of our activities. I am personally committed to ensure all our staff, our manufacturing team, our drilling personnel, contract managers, contractors, and partners have the tools and resources to make a real difference, day after day.

At Kensa we proudly integrate environmental sustainability into all our activities as we strive to address climate change and deliver affordable heating solutions for our customers and our partner’s customers. We will, every day, seek to do the right thing while preparing to meet the challenges of the future.