Carbon Reduction Plan

Total reported emissions, tCO2e

01Commitment to achieving Net Zero

NOVA AI SW LIMITED is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050, in line with the United Kingdom's statutory target under the Climate Change Act 2008 as amended.

We are a two-director company with no employees, no premises, no vehicles, no manufacturing, no warehousing and no physical supply chain. Our emissions are correspondingly small. Every figure in this document is either zero for a stated reason, or the result of an arithmetic shown in full in section 6.

02Baseline emissions footprint

A baseline is a record of emissions that occurred prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. It is the reference point against which reduction is measured.

Baseline year: 14 January 2026 to 31 August 2026.

This is a part-year of 230 days, reported as a part-year rather than annualised. The company was incorporated on 14 January 2026 and its first accounting reference date is 31 January 2027, so no complete financial year has yet elapsed. Reporting a projected or annualised figure would put a forecast into a document that is signed as a statement of fact, so we have not done it. This baseline will be restated against the first full financial year to 31 January 2027, in the revision of this plan due by 31 July 2027.

Because this is the company's first reporting period, the baseline year and the current reporting year are the same period. Section 3 is therefore identical to this section, and will diverge from it at the next revision.

Baseline emissions

How each figure was arrived at

03Current emissions reporting

Reporting year: 14 January 2026 to 31 August 2026, the same period as the baseline, this being the company's first Carbon Reduction Plan.

04Emissions reduction targets

A percentage reduction target against a total of 0.07 tCO2e would be arithmetic without meaning: a single return flight would swamp it, and a rounding change would let us claim a reduction we had not made. We have therefore set targets that can actually be passed or failed.

Projected emissions

On the operating model above, and with the same working pattern, the first full financial year to 31 January 2027 would carry a footprint of the same order, in the region of 0.1 tCO2e on the categories reported here. Over five years, to 31 January 2031, we project emissions on these categories at or below 0.1 tCO2e. That is held there by targets 2 and 3 rather than by a percentage reduction: Scope 1 and Scope 2 stay at zero, and travel stays exceptional and justified.

Two things would change that projection. Target 1 widens the boundary to cloud and software emissions, which will raise the reported total in version 2.0 without any emission having increased; the two figures will be shown side by side so the change is legible as a change of scope. And if the company takes on employees or premises, the projection is restated in the revision that happens in. These are projections and are labelled as such; they are not measured figures and nothing else in this plan rests on them.

05Carbon reduction projects

Completed

The measures below have been in effect since incorporation, which is also the start of the baseline period, so there is no earlier baseline to measure a reduction against: the emissions reduction attributable to them is not quantified for this first plan, and the zeros in section 2 are their effect. These measures will be in effect when performing the contract.

In progress or planned

06Method, and the arithmetic in full

This plan is completed in accordance with PPN 006 and its associated guidance and technical standard for the completion of Carbon Reduction Plans. Emissions are reported using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, under an operational control boundary, in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), using the UK Government greenhouse gas conversion factors for company reporting, 2026 edition.

6.1 Working hours

6.2 Homeworking electricity

The workspace is heated and lit by mains electricity; there is no gas supply in use for it. The method is the one set out in section 15 of the DESNZ 2026 conversion factors methodology, which derives its homeworking factors from EcoAct's Homeworking Emissions Whitepaper (2020). Section 6.4 states where we depart from it and what that is worth.

6.3 Conversion to CO2e

70.63 kgCO2e = 0.07 tCO2e, the figure reported in sections 2 and 3.

6.4 The least certain input, and the range it produces

6.5 Assurance

This plan has not been externally verified or audited. No audit requirement applies under PPN 006, and at this scale an assurance engagement would cost more than the emissions it examined. The hours, factors and arithmetic are set out above in full so that a contracting authority can check them.

07Declaration and sign off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 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 Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, and use the UK Government's 2026 conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements where those requirements apply. The company is below the SECR thresholds and is not required to report under it; the figures above are given anyway. The required subset of Scope 3 emissions has been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, together with one voluntary additional disclosure which is identified as such.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and approved by the board of directors of NOVA AI SW LIMITED.