Making Carbon Transparency a Reality: Our Journey to Completing Tier 2 Reporting for the Environment Agency’s Property Flood Resilience Framework

At a time when climate risk and environmental accountability shape the future of business, sustainability is an important commitment. Today, we’re proud to share a milestone that reflects that commitment: we are the first supplier to complete and submit Tier 2 carbon reporting for the Environment Agency on its’ Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Framework.

Why This Matters

The Environment Agency’s PFR Framework is a national programme designed to reduce the impacts of flooding on homes by improving flood resilience at the property level. The framework provides a route to market for survey, design, and installation of PFR measures, helping communities recover faster and more resiliently from flood events.

Carbon reporting is increasingly a fundamental requirement of transparent environmental performance. In the UK, frameworks require organisations to disclose energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. These disclosures help stakeholders, from regulators to clients, understand real environmental impact and commitment to decarbonisation.

While carbon reporting at the organisational level is becoming standard, supply chain reporting, especially at Tier 2, remains a higher bar. It requires detailed insight into indirect emissions that occur outside direct operations, such as those embedded in purchased goods or services, and that demand collaboration across multiple partners.

The Challenge of Tier 2 Emissions

Tier 1 emissions are those associated with your direct suppliers, the companies you buy from directly. Tier 2 emissions reach further upstream to your suppliers’ suppliers. Tracking and reporting these figures means engaging partners who themselves may not yet have strong carbon measurement processes in place, aligning data methodologies and standards, and then reconciling that data in a way that meets strict reporting criteria.

Getting this right is not just about data capture, it’s about influence, engagement, and leadership. It’s a signal that sustainability performance isn’t just internal; it’s embedded throughout our value chain.

What We Did

1. Consulted with subject matter experts
We sought guidance from Greener Futures Leicestershire and used the NatWest Carbon Planner to design our Tier 2 reporting approach.
2. Engage Our Supply Chain
Working collaboratively with our Tier 1 partners, we reached out to their suppliers to gather primary emissions data, helping them understand methodologies and why this transparency is vital.
3. Apply Robust Carbon Accounting
Drawing on recognised frameworks and best practice, we compiled our carbon inventory with precision and transparency, accounting for indirect emissions in a way that can be audited and verified.
4. Submit to the Environment Agency
Through rigorous validation, we completed and submitted our Tier 2 carbon report ahead of all other suppliers on the PFR Framework. This positions us not only as a delivery partner in flood resilience, but as a leader in environmental transparency.

The Bigger Picture

This milestone is important for us, but it also matters for the construction, resilience and public sector supply communities. It shows that:

• Supply chain emissions transparency is achievable, even beyond organisational boundaries.
• Carbon accountability enhances trust with public sector clients like the Environment Agency.
• Early movers gain competitive advantage as sustainability criteria increasingly influence procurement decisions.

Greater clarity around carbon emissions isn’t just good for compliance, it drives better decision-making, stronger resilience planning and credible climate action that can be traced from strategy to delivery.

What is Next?

This is just the beginning. We will continue improving how we measure, reduce and report emissions, and we will share insights and learnings with our clients and partners to raise industry-wide standards.