This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 (formerly PPN 06/21) and the associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans. It sets out the organisational carbon footprint of ALLIUMAI LTD and confirms the company's commitment to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050. See the Declaration and Sign Off section for confirmation of the reporting standard applied and board approval.
ALLIUMAI LTD is committed to achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 for its UK operations, consistent with the UK Government's commitment under the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019.
As a clinician-founded, pre-revenue micro-SME delivering independent clinical-AI safety assurance entirely through remote and cloud-based working, our absolute emissions are low. We nonetheless treat carbon reduction as a governance discipline in the same way we treat clinical safety: measured, evidenced, and reviewed at director level. Our intention is to reach Net Zero substantially ahead of 2050 and to keep our footprint minimal as the company grows.
ALLIUMAI LTD has prepared this Carbon Reduction Plan in accordance with the reporting standard published alongside PPN 006. Emissions are quantified following the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard and, for the required Scope 3 subset, the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard. Emissions are expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e), covering the seven Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, HFCs, PFCs, SF₆, NF₃), using the UK Government 2025 greenhouse gas conversion factors for company reporting (Department for Energy Security & Net Zero / Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy).
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases produced before the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. They are the reference point against which future emissions reduction is measured.
Baseline year: 2026
Reporting period: 26 January 2026 (date of incorporation) – 31 December 2026
2026 is the company's first year of operation; this is therefore the first available reporting period and is adopted as the baseline year. ALLIUMAI LTD is a remote, home-based micro-SME with two director-employees (both GMC-registered doctors) and no other staff. The company operates no offices, no owned or leased premises, no owned vehicles, no manufacturing, and no on-site fuel combustion. Its activity is the development and operation of a software-based clinical-AI safety-evaluation harness. The company's environmental footprint is therefore essentially: home-office electricity, cloud-compute energy, the electricity used by one local computing workstation, and minimal incidental travel.
Where source data is not directly metered (separating home-office business use from domestic use; allocating shared cloud-platform energy to this account; estimating waste and travel for a two-person remote business), figures have been estimated using a transparent, stated method in line with the proportionality provisions of the reporting standard, which permit reasonable estimation and a documented explanation where primary data is not available. Estimation methods are stated beneath each line.
| Emissions | Total (tCO₂e) |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 — Direct emissions. Sources: none. The company owns and operates no vehicles, no gas boilers/combustion plant, no refrigeration/air-conditioning under its operational control, and no other direct-emission sources. As a fully remote business it has no operated premises. |
0.00 (nil — see note 1) |
| Scope 2 — Indirect energy (purchased electricity). Sources: home-office electricity for two remote directors; one local high-performance computing workstation; the company's share of purchased electricity for cloud compute (DigitalOcean, London region apps and workers). |
0.65 (estimated — see note 2) |
| Scope 3 — Required subset: • Category 4 — Upstream transportation & distribution • Category 5 — Waste generated in operations • Category 6 — Business travel • Category 7 — Employee commuting • Category 9 — Downstream transportation & distribution |
0.10 (estimated / de minimis — see note 3) |
| Total emissions | 0.75 |
Scope 1 covers direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by the organisation. ALLIUMAI LTD has no such sources: it owns no vehicles, operates no premises, combusts no natural gas or other fuels, and holds no fugitive-emission (refrigerant) sources under its operational control. All staff work remotely from their own homes; domestic heating is the responsibility of the householder and is not under the company's operational control. Scope 1 emissions are therefore reported as nil (0.00 tCO₂e).
Scope 2 reflects purchased electricity consumed in delivering the company's work. As a remote software/advisory business, this comprises three components, estimated as follows using a deliberately conservative location-based grid factor of approximately 0.21 kgCO₂e/kWh (set above the lower UK Government 2025 published factor of ~0.18 kgCO₂e/kWh, to avoid understating emissions):
| Source | Estimated annual electricity | Method | tCO₂e |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home-office working — 2 directors | ~900 kWh | Apportioned business-use electricity for two home-based knowledge workers (laptop, monitor, lighting, networking ≈ 0.25 kW for ~1,800 home-working hours each, business share only). | 0.19 |
| Local computing workstation | ~1,500 kWh | One high-performance Windows workstation used intermittently for evaluation/embedding work; assumed ~450 W average draw under active load for ~3,300 effective hours/year, including idle. | 0.32 |
| Cloud compute (DigitalOcean, London) | ~650 kWh | Company's apportioned share of data-centre electricity for London-region applications and workers, estimated from a small set of always-on basic app/worker instances; market-based emissions are lower where the provider procures renewable electricity (see reduction measures). | 0.14 |
| Total Scope 2 | ~3,050 kWh | 0.65 |
Figures are deliberately conservative (rounded up) and use a location-based grid factor. Where providers supply renewable-backed electricity, the market-based figure would be materially lower; ALLIUMAI LTD will report market-based figures as supplier-specific data becomes available. As metering and supplier data improve, these estimates will be refined in subsequent annual updates.
The reporting standard requires the following five Scope 3 categories. For a two-person, pre-revenue, remote, software-only business, all five are either de minimis or fall under the "data not available / explanation provided" proportionality provision. Each is addressed below.
| Scope 3 category | Status & explanation | tCO₂e |
|---|---|---|
| Category 4 — Upstream transportation & distribution | The company purchases no physical goods for resale and operates no logistics. Upstream transport is limited to occasional delivery of IT consumables (e.g. a replacement peripheral). De minimis. | <0.01 |
| Category 5 — Waste generated in operations | A fully digital, home-based business generates negligible operational waste. The only material waste stream is end-of-life IT/e-waste (small volumes of computer hardware), which is recycled through WEEE-compliant routes. De minimis. | <0.01 |
| Category 6 — Business travel | The company is remote-first and conducts client engagement, partnerships and assurance work predominantly online. Incidental travel (occasional rail to meetings) is minimal in the baseline year. Estimated from a small number of UK rail journeys using the UK Government 2025 rail conversion factor. | ~0.08 |
| Category 7 — Employee commuting | Both employees are home-based and do not commute to a company workplace; there is no company premises to commute to. Working-from-home energy is captured under Scope 2 above to avoid double counting. Effectively nil. | <0.01 |
| Category 9 — Downstream transportation & distribution | The company's product is software and written assurance reports delivered digitally. There is no physical product, no distribution fleet, and no downstream logistics. Not applicable / nil. | 0.00 |
| Total Scope 3 (required subset) | ~0.10 |
Where a figure is shown as <0.01 or the category is marked de minimis/not applicable, primary activity data has not been separately collected because the underlying activity is immaterial to the company's footprint. This is consistent with the proportionality and "data not available" provisions of the reporting standard. The company will keep these categories under review and begin collecting primary data on any category that becomes material as it grows.
Reporting year: 2026 (baseline year)
Reporting period: 26 January 2026 – 31 December 2026
As 2026 is the company's first year of trading, the current reporting year and the baseline year are the same. The emissions reported in the Baseline Emissions section above therefore also represent the current footprint:
| Emissions | Total (tCO₂e) |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 | 0.00 |
| Scope 2 | 0.65 |
| Scope 3 (required subset) | 0.10 |
| Total emissions | 0.75 |
From the next reporting period onward, current-year emissions will be reported against the 2026 baseline and an intensity metric (tCO₂e per full-time-equivalent employee) will be published to track progress independently of company growth.
To progress towards Net Zero by 2050, ALLIUMAI LTD has adopted the following carbon reduction targets, measured against the 2026 baseline of 0.75 tCO₂e:
Because the company's absolute footprint is very small, targets are framed primarily around intensity and source-mix so that progress remains meaningful as the company scales. Targets will be reviewed and, where appropriate, tightened at each annual update.
The following environmental management measures have been adopted from the company's first year of operation and are in effect when performing contracts:
ALLIUMAI LTD intends to implement the following measures as the company develops:
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 (formerly PPN 06/21) and the associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, and use the appropriate UK Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting. Where primary data was not available, emissions have been estimated using the documented methods stated in this plan, consistent with the proportionality provisions of the reporting standard.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions has been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body) of ALLIUMAI LTD, and approval was given on 21 July 2026.
Signed on behalf of the supplier:
Name — Dr Karl Rathbone
Job title — Director
Date — 21 July 2026
Name — Dr Mark Morris
Job title — Director
Date — 21 July 2026