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Net Zero Plan – Statement of Fact

Tide’s Journey to Net Zero

“At Tide, we are on a journey to reach Net Zero by 2030. Despite our rapid growth as a global organisation, we remain focused on reducing our emissions per employee by 90% by 2030 vs a 2021 baseline, and we renew our commitment on purchasing high quality carbon removal meanwhile.

With over 1 million members globally, we recognise that we play a key part in supporting their journey towards net zero by measuring, reducing or removing their carbon footprint, and saving them time and money in the process.

We are advocates of taking action now and we’re proud to be the first fintech in the world to remove 100% of emissions since 2022.”

CEO India & Global Head of Net Zero, Gurjodhpal Singh

Tide’s Net Zero Plan

  • Pledge 1: Carbon Removal 

Tide commits to removing 100% of our scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions with durable carbon removals every year from 2022 onwards.

  • Pledge 2: Net Zero

Tide will reduce 90% of CO2e emissions per employee by 2030, vs a 2021 baseline, and by doing so we will also achieve a 97% reduction in CO2 emissions by revenue.

  • Pledge 3: Members

Tide commits to making Net Zero simpler for our members by developing support for them to get to Net Zero.

Pledges 1 and 2 will make Tide reach Net Zero across scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2030.

Pledge 1: Carbon Removal – Tide commits to removing 100% of our emissions with durable carbon removal from 2022 onwards.

Tide became the first fintech globally to remove 100% of its emissions since 2022. As of today, we have retired 8,080 tonnes of CO2 via durable carbon removals, with an additional 7,500 tCO2 to be delivered by December 2026.

In total this is equivalent to removing over 5,000 petrol cars off the street on average, or enough carbon emissions to fill Wembley stadium, twice! 

As the Voluntary Carbon Market matures and technology plays a key part in enabling more high quality carbon removal projects to be developed, we remain flexible in our carbon removal strategy. 

All the details can be found in the public registry CDR.fyi.

Pledge 2: Net Zero – Tide will reduce 90% of our 2021 emissions per employee by 2030. In doing so, we will reduce emissions by 97% on a revenue basis.

Pledges 1 and 2 will make Tide Net Zero by 2030.

Tide’s investment in carbon removals runs alongside our ambitious carbon reduction targets.

We are a fast growing organisation, supporting over 1 million members globally, and therefore we have chosen to set intensity based carbon reduction targets in line with the guideline of the Science Based Target Initiative.

We have committed to reducing 90% of our CO2 emissions per employee and 97% by revenue by 2030, vs a 2021 baseline.

We remain flexible in our approach and we review our targets periodically to ensure they align with the latest best practice, and in the future we also plan to set absolute reduction targets.

GHG Protocol – Scopes 1, 2, 3

To take action to reduce emissions, companies need to understand and measure where they’re sourced from in the first place.

We’re monitoring our emissions using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG), the most widely used international accounting tool and the global industry standard for measuring carbon emissions.

The three scopes are part of the GHG Protocol.

We worked with the carbon removal platform, Supercritical, to measure our Scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

The three scopes are a way of categorising the different kinds of GHG emissions a company creates in its operations and value chains.

  • Scope 1 emissions

Direct emissions – emissions directly from operations that are owned or controlled by the reporting company (e.g. company cars, emissions from company’s product). 

  • Scope 2 emissions

Indirect Emissions – emissions from the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, heating, or cooling consumed by the reporting company.

  • Scope 3 emissions

Indirect emissions – all indirect emissions (not included in Scope 2) that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions.

For Tide, this includes business travel, employee remote working, commuting, cloud hosting, procurement, software usage, marketing and leased assets but excludes members.

Here is a breakdown of our scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions for the 2024 calendar year.

Please note that scope 1 and 2 are reported as zero under both location based and market based methodology as we currently don’t operate in any owned or single occupied office, and we don’t operate a vehicle fleet. Instead, all emissions driven by energy consumption in our own offices are included into Scope 3 category 8 emissions, in line with the GHG Protocol.

We purchase 100% renewable electricity to match our office consumption, as well as our employees electricity consumption while working from home, unless already purchased via a renewable electricity tariff. This is enough renewable electricity to power 500 electric cars driving from London to Delhi and back!.

The chart below, shows our year-on-year  CO2e/employee emission. In 2024, we have achieved a 44% reduction vs 2021 baseline.

Tide’s Audit

Tide has engaged with independent auditors, Carbon Footprint Ltd, to verify Tide’s carbon footprint calculation and supporting evidence for the period 1st January 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Carbon Footprint Ltd completed the review in accordance with the ‘ISO 14064 Part 3 (2019): Greenhouse Gases: Specification with guidance for the verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements’. The work was undertaken to provide a limited level of assurance with respect to the GHG statements made.

The following activities were undertaken during the verification by Carbon Footprint:

  • Initial review of the GHG documentation and methodologies, including historical GHG data for the period 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024.

  • Remote Audit, involving discussions with staff from Tide and Supercritical, regarding:

  • Scope of calculation (including appraisal boundaries).

  • Input data sets, any missing data, estimations made and assumptions.

  • Calculation methodology and conversion factors used.

  • Quality control procedures.

Results and interpretations

Based on the results of the verification process, Carbon Footprint Ltd provided limited assurance that the GHG emissions statement:

  •  is materially correct and is a fair representation of the GHG emissions data and information; and

  •  is prepared in accordance with the GHG Protocol and ISO14064-3 Standard.

Carbon Footprint Ltd opinion is that  Tide has established appropriate systems for the collection, aggregation and analysis of quantitative data for determination of GHG emissions for the stated period and boundaries.

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And finally:

Pledge 3: Members – Tide commits to making Net Zero simpler for our members by developing support for them to get to Net Zero.

To make a real difference, we must help our members – who make up 9% of all UK SMEs – to decarbonise.

The task of achieving Net Zero can seem overly complex and even overwhelming to many small and medium-sized businesses. In the coming years we plan to roll out a range of products, services and apps to make the process of monitoring and reporting carbon emissions easier.

We have already launched our first Net Zero service in 2024: all our members in the UK can access our carbon emissions calculator powered by Connect Earth as part of their Tide membership. Thanks to this ground breaking technology, an increasing number of members have opted in to get the carbon emissions associated with all their expenditures via their Tide account, may that be utility bills, fuel or supply chain, measuring a total of 60,000 tCO2!

We are open to working with others: From product partners to ideas, let us know by reaching out NetZero@tide.co.

Click here for our full Net Zero Plan & FAQs.