Lockton Environment Report 2018

Building on Strength

Checkmate, part of our business, is run by Paul Cooper – a Partner and a member of the Lockton Environment Group. In Paul’s own words below you can read that this part of our business was designed to be an environmentally responsible business from its original conception and was the first part of Lockton to be carbon neutral.

“We are a paperless business that utilises bespoke IT platforms to conduct and operate our business from sales through risk selection, risk management, document fulfilment, reporting to insurers and claims handling. All of its team are home-based and located around the UK to minimise travel to clients and development sites whilst having a zero impact on the environment from a “Travel to work” perspective. Since launching its business within the Lockton family on 1st march 2010 Checkmate has been, and continues to achieve the status of being, a Carbon Neutral business. Checkmate undergoes an annual assessment against the PAS2060 requirements and off-sets any unavoidable emissions absolutely necessary as its assessment each year takes in to account the entire household CO2 values for electricity and gas of all of its team, not just the % attributed to a single home-worker. Checkmate produces an annual Carbon Management & Reduction plan and every year has reduced its carbon footprint against the measure set in its baseline year, by greater than its 3% year on year target. Part of its carbon reduction plan is the introduction of measures that engage its team such as:  Supply of low energy light bulbs for the home-office  A company car allowance that financially encourages the selection of lower emission vehicles Checkmate has recently developed and launched its own smart-phone app which amongst many other customer service benefits has significantly reduced the amount of cameras, memory cards and UBB drives being posted around the country to different construction sites. In addition to its carbon neutral status Checkmate also plants 100 broad-leaved native English trees every month at publically accessible woodlands across the UK; at the time of writing Checkmate has planted 6,300 throughout Britain. As a Partner of Lockton, Head of Checkmate and a Chartered Environmentalist, I am proud to be part of the Environment Group helping Lockton to continue to lead in this area of the insurance sector.” through recognised Voluntary Carbon Standard schemes around the globe. In fact Checkmate goes further than is

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