With the recent concerns over global warming and climate change our Swisse team decided it was time to put our healthy & happy attitude towards peoples health & wellbeing & put it towards developing a long term sustainability strategy on becoming carbon friendly.

Adopting a response to climate change was our first step over 12 months ago and by engaging the help of a third party consultant, Carbon Balanced Consulting, we conducted an audit of our business. Carbon Balanced Consulting helped us develop our carbon inventory, implement reductions and source accredited carbon offsets. This environmental journey has led us to becoming a Carbon Balanced business.

"Swisse has balanced its emission with its reductions and offsets to produce a zero net emissions"Carbon Balance Consulting.

The term Carbon Balanced is akin to Carbon Neutral but expresses it in a way that embraces a more realistic and holistic approach to the process. Our auditor's definition of Carbon Balanced is that our organisation has been audited on its Greenhouse Gas emissions and calculated its carbon footprint in tones of CO2-e. This amount has been reduced, where possible, and the residual amount has then been balanced by the purchase of accredited carbon offsets. The carbon footprint is described as the total amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions for which our organisation is responsible.

For a detailed report we invite you to read our auditors report here

We view the purchase of carbon offsets as an important element of the solution and approach it as an active way of investing in a service or action that results in an environmental benefit and helps to abate climate change. It was decided to create a portfolio of offsets tailored to our needs and desire to promote activities and events that were important to our Swisse team and ones that we believe our customers could relate to.