Sustainability

Limecraft’s Path to Net Zero: Transparency, Action, and Accountability

Maarten Verwaest
January 29, 2025

At Limecraft, sustainability isn’t just a goal—it’s a commitment embedded in everything we do. As media production moves increasingly to the cloud, we recognise our responsibility to minimise our and our customer’s environmental footprint. We’re proud to publish our Carbon Footprint Report for FY2024, offering full transparency on our impact and outlining the steps toward Net Zero by 2030.

This year’s report reveals a total carbon footprint of 162.5 metric tons CO2e, with 94.4% of emissions stemming from Scope 3 activities—highlighting the importance of collaboration with sustainable partners. While our Scope 1 emissions rose slightly due to fleet expansion, our Scope 2 emissions remain minimal thanks to efficient energy use.

Reporting is just the beginning. We put our money where our mouth is, from transitioning to an EV-only fleet and optimising business travel, to deepening our engagement with low-impact cloud providers, and investing in a carbon removal projects. In particular, we’re offsetting 100% of our emissions in partnership with Go Forest, ensuring immediate climate action while we drive long-term reductions.

Limecraft is recognised by the DPP for our commitment to sustainability, and is a member of the UN Global Compact.

Read on to explore our data, our strategy, and how we’re working toward a sustainable future for media production, or download the PDF version.

Limecraft’s Mission

We empower media professionals by providing innovative, efficient, and collaborative software solutions for managing and producing high-quality content. As such, we allow them to streamline their entire media production workflow, from script to screen, through cloud-based tools that enhance creativity, improve productivity, and ensure secure collaboration across teams and locations.

Infographic explaining the key elements of the Limecraft strategy for reducing its ecological impact, including reducing the number of files and file transfers, responsible use of AI, and relying on renewable energy sources

Throughout all our activities and inherent to all of its products & solutions, Limecraft pursues sustainability by reducing the environmental impact of its own tech stack as well as that of the production processes relying on it, advocating for digital workflows as simple as possible, with the smallest operational footprint, and supporting green initiatives to create a more sustainable future for the media industry as a whole.

Methodology & scope

This Carbon Footprint Disclosure Report is prepared in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. It details emissions across all relevant scopes as defined by the GHG Protocol.

The organisational boundaries are defined using the Operational Control approach. This approach ensures that all emissions from operations under our control are accounted for within the scope of this report. We have employed the following methodologies and data sources to calculate our GHG emissions:

  • activity data collection from operational records and utility bills
  • emission factors sourced from ADEME and Ecoinvent databases
  • estimation techniques for unavailable data, in line with GHG Protocol guidelines

This Carbon Footprint Report outlines Limecraft’s carbon footprint for the reporting period of FY2024, starting on October 1st 2023 and ending on September 30th 2024.

Carbon Footprint

The Total Carbon Footprint of Limecraft for FY2024 was 162.5 metric tons CO2e, broken down as follows:

  • Scope 1: Direct GHG Emissions: 9.06 metric tons CO2e, or 5.6% of total emissions (+12% compared to FY2023)
  • Scope 2: Indirect GHG Emissions from Energy Consumption: 0.11 metric tons CO2e, or < 1% of total emissions
  • Scope 3: Other indirect GHG Emissions: 153.34 metric tons CO2e, or 94.4% of total emissions (+20% compared to FY2023)

Carbon Reduction Target

Limecraft remains carbon neutral, and committed to achieving Net Zero by 2030. This Net Zero target implies that the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by Limecraft will be balanced with an equivalent amount removed or offset, resulting in a net zero emissions balance.

The carbon reduction plan for the timeframe FY2023 – FY2026 comprises in essence:

  1.  Emissions reduction, with actions among others (not exhaustive):
    – Scope 1: transition to EV-only company fleet,
    – Scope 3: optimisation of business travel,
    – Scope 3: increased collaboration with sustainable (cloud) providers, and
    – Scope 3: continued emphasis on utilisation of renewable resources & low environmental impact design;
  2. Carbon removal, via recurring contributions to carbon removal projects, such as afforestation, reforestation, soil carbon sequestration and direct air capture.
    Intermediate milestones to that end are expected to result in a carbon footprint for both scope 1 and scope 2 of less than 1 metric tons CO2e by FY2026. For scope 3 we target a reduction of at least 30% in metric tons CO2e against the reported carbon footprint of FY2023 (127.72 metric tons CO2e).

Carbon Offset Pledge

In anticipation of our commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2030, Limecraft pledged to offset its entire carbon footprint (scopes 1 + 2 + 3) on an annual basis as of FY2023. We do so through various investments in reforestation initiatives. For FY2023 and FY2024, we have chosen to partner with Go Forest (www.goforest.be) on the back of their transparent and accessible service offering in combination with their dedication to and impact on local agricultural communities. Our initiatives and our impact can be consulted via https://impact.gofamily.be/en/partners/limecraft.

Disclaimer

The Carbon Footprint data included in this report has been assembled using the best practices currently available, along with accessible data and standardised methodologies, such as recognised life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques. Nevertheless, the complexity of calculating Carbon Footprints, combined with the use of various data sources, including third-party databases and assumptions, may lead to inherent uncertainties or inaccuracies in the figures provided. Factors such as data quality variations, shifts in operational practices, regional differences, and the evolving nature of environmental conditions can all affect the precision of the reported Carbon Footprint. Therefore, the figures presented should be viewed as estimates rather than exact measurements.

This report aims to provide a general understanding of the Carbon Footprint of Limecraft and should not be relied upon exclusively for critical decision-making. Stakeholders are advised to interpret this information with an awareness of its limitations and to seek further validation or conduct additional analysis when accuracy is crucial. As methodologies and data accuracy continue to improve, future updates to this report may be necessary as new information becomes available.

For any inquiries or further information, please contact Maarten Verwaest, Executive Chairman.