Could cutting your carbon, cut your costs?

• It’s for all UK organisations. You do not have to be an Ulster Bank customer to sign up to Carbon Planner.
• While any UK business could use the tool, you’ll get the most from it if:
  
  
  • You’re able to access it on a desktop computer
    
  • You’re interested in taking action to reduce your carbon emissions

1. Give us a few details to help us work out your carbon footprint.
2. Set targets to build an action plan to reduce your emissions. We’ll suggest where to focus your efforts for the biggest impact.
3. Explore resources, products and services available to support you moving forward with specific carbon-cutting actions.
4. Use the insight gained from the tool to share your climate journey within your organisation.

There are many ways in which Carbon Planner could help your organisation, and not only in moving forward with your climate journey.

• Understand the impact of your day-to-day activities and priority actions you can take to reduce emissions.
• Share data with key stakeholders to help influence change.
• Reduce inefficiencies and costs across your organisations.
• Gain added confidence in your climate decisions.
• Inspire your workforce to get behind a focussed plan.

For the best experience, we recommend using a desktop computer.

No. This service is free to sign up to and use.

Your Carbon Planner account will be set up and you will be sent an email address containing instructions on how to log in.

By signing up to the Carbon Planner, you are given account admin rights. You can invite as many people as you want to join your company account and share in your climate journey.

For full details about how Ulster Bank uses the personal data of our customers, please see our privacy notice.

We want Carbon Planner to be shaped by the organisations that use it, so it truly helps them to reduce emissions and move forward in their climate journey. We have talked to over 1000 organisations throughout the design and build process, including conducting a small-scale pilot. We officially launched Carbon Planner in November 2022, so what you will interact with is the first release, which is continually tested and improved upon. We will continue asking for feedback, building this into future releases of the service.

Due to human activity, the world is warming up. We are already witnessing many impacts of climate change, such as rising sea level and extreme weather conditions. If we continue to produce carbon dioxide at the rate we do, more damage will be done to our planet and its inhabitants. We are in a state of climate emergency, and everyone has to do their bit to reduce their carbon footprint and slow this damage.

We use your industry and area of focus to calculate your industry average footprint and suggest relevant carbon-cutting actions.

If you’re not sure which you fit into, have a look at the descriptions in the attached pdf. These are taken from the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.

View the list of sectors available (PDF, 73kB)

Tackling climate change and helping people, families and businesses with the transition to a low-carbon economy is a key part of our purpose-led approach to banking. We’re setting ambitious targets, doing all we can to reduce our own carbon footprint. We’ve committed to having net zero emissions by 2050.

Read more about our targets and progress

More than half of the UK’s carbon reduction ambition could be delivered by UK businesses and we want to support other organisations in their climate journeys.

Discover how else we could support you on your climate journey

We’ve worked with Green Element, an environmental management consultancy with over 20 years of experience, to ensure we are aligning with sustainable best practice. We have also worked with other third parties to develop the tool, including consultancies and academic experts. We’ve tapped into their knowledge to calculate an estimate of your organisation's carbon footprint and suggest tailored actions to reduce your emissions. In addition, our in-house team of climate experts and data scientists are working hard to continue to develop and improve the tool, making sure the insights generated stay relevant.

*NatWest Group does not receive any fees from Green Element for organisations that subsequently purchase products or services from Green Element.

This target modelling tool was developed based on the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) open-source methods for developing emission reduction targets. Targets modelled using this tool cannot be guaranteed to align with the SBTi. The SBTi does not endorse, recommend, partner with or support any third-party target-setting service or tool, and was not involved in the development of this target modelling tool. For more information about the SBTi, visit www.sciencebasedtargets.org.