Allows companies to compare products, supports sustainability goals, praised by FIRA.
Objectives
The Furniture Industry Research Association (FIRA) is renowned globally for its expertise in furniture testing, research, consultancy, customer care, ergonomics, training and sustainability.
FIRA identified increasing pressure on the furniture industry from specifiers, the Government and retailers to reduce its carbon footprint. And with hundreds of members spanning from the United Kingdom to Tasmania, they wanted to develop a tool to help their own clients reach their sustainability goals and Net Zero ambitions.
Project
Anthesis was commissioned by FIRA to configure a bespoke version of our FootprinterTM tool, with the specific goal of calculating furniture emission factors. The Furniture FootprinterTM is the premier carbon footprint calculator for the furniture industry. The online tool, with its unique ‘drag and drop’ capability, allows all parties within the furniture supply chain to quickly and easily generate and compare carbon footprints for their businesses and products.
Since its implementation, our analyst team continue to research and update emission factors relating to furniture production, as well as providing ongoing software maintenance and technical support.
Services
Extensive stakeholder engagement with FIRA and its members
Research, analysis and configuration of the furniture emissions factors
Ongoing software maintenance and user support
Impacts
When combined with FIRA’s carbon footprint verification scheme, which defines the accounting boundaries of product and company footprints for the furniture sector, the Furniture FootprinterTM allows companies to compare their products with the market on a like-for-like basis.
The saying ‘if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it’ is as true as ever when it comes to combating CO2 emissions. It’s FIRA’s aim to make carbon accounting as easy as possible so that others can concentrate on reducing their footprint. No more spreadsheets or struggling to find conversion factors, the Furniture FootprinterTM tool provides a full web-based solution backed up by the experience of Europe’s leading footprint specialists.
Bruce Lovell, Consultant, FIRA
We were pleased to work with the Anthesis team on this project and are very happy with the support they provided. The team’s expertise in SBTs in Private Equity, combined with their attentiveness to our needs, made us comfortable to commit to the SBTi. They also made the submission process to the SBTi very smooth by helping out with the application to fulfil all requirements.
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