Carbon Reduction Plan - Burges Salmon LLP - Summer 2024

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Carbon Reduction Plan 2024 • Committing to public reporting and transparency through our annual Responsible Business report • Engaging with our people through our internal ‘BSustainable’ network, including regular environmental communication campaigns such as our annual Green Week • Regular communications on our environmental commitments and achievements both internally and externally We are participants in CDP Climate. We are founding members of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance. We are supporters of and participants in the Chancery Lane Project, which is a pro-bono initiative where lawyers collaborate to develop climate conscious contract clauses and model laws. The additional measures we are currently progressing include: • Following our energy audit and ESOS report, designing and implementing an action plan to realise the potential energy savings and efficiency improvements • Building Working Groups to focus on each of our Strategic Environmental Objectives and to set reduction targets (Carbon, Business Travel, Waste reduction, Procurement, Industry and Community Engagement) • Hosting Supplier Engagement events to share requirements and best practice with a focus on sustainability • Developing ‘ESG for Suppliers’ guidance to share with our supply chain, particularly our smaller suppliers • Carefully considering the refurbishment and development of our workspaces by choosing to work with fit out partners who have the same values and re-using materials and furniture as far as possible • Considering the efficiency of air handling and movement across our offices to reduce energy consumption while ensuring the health and wellbeing of our people • Advocating for adoption of alternative sustainable solutions for providing heating and cooling into our buildings, to move reliance away from fossil fuels eg heat networks • Developing an enhanced Sustainable Travel Policy for our people informed by research from the University of Bristol In every year since 2020 we have invested in a high-quality conservation and rewilding project with carbon offsets assured by the UK Woodland Carbon Code. Whilst we first pursue energy reductions and efficiencies such investment is an on-going annual commitment to respond to our residual emissions. Declaration and Sign Off This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and 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 Reporting Protocol corporate standard i3 3 https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard 6 Classification: Confidential

Carbon Reduction Plan 2024 and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting 4 . Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard 5 . This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the firm’s Partnership Committee (which is our management body equivalent to a board of directors). Signed on behalf of the Supplier: …………………………………………………………………. Roger Bull, Managing Partner Date: …29/8/24……………….………. 4 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting 5 https://ghgprotocol.org/standards/scope-3-standard 7 Classification: Confidential