Last week at Zero we embarked upon a little race with a big ambition, the Giki Employee Race to Zero.
This is a competition to engage companies and their employees across the UK in climate action.
As a relatively new company Zero is still agile enough for this initiative to have a real impact, with those colleagues further along on their sustainability journeys signing up alongside coworkers. Some of our people are less sustainability focused than others but a small change for these can make the biggest difference.
The Giki Race to Zero runs for two weeks between 14-27 October 2024, with a focus on going green at work for the first week and going green at home for the second.
It starts with each employee undertaking a quick carbon footprint assessment including questions about lifestyle such as flights taken in year, daily commuting, diet, etc. Giki, then offers bite-sized tips in the form of ‘steps’ to take to reduce carbon footprint.
At Zero, we recognise that a huge system shift needs to happen, driven by governments, policymakers, regulators and large corporations, but we shouldn’t discount the power of the collective. When it comes to climate change action, the sum is greater than its parts.
Zero, like Giki, will help customers understand their own environmental impact through our innovative GreenScore feature, starting with an abstracted representation of a user’s carbon footprint. It won’t be presented in Tonnes or Kilos of carbon dioxide equivalent because, really, what does this mean to most of us?
Instead, we’ve simplified it into a simple number on a scale between 1-1000 that moves up and down according to the spending on your Zero card and with other banks or debit cards.
Later, GreenScore will also consider other data on lifestyle inputs such as travel, diet and shopping habits. Changes we make because of this knowledge, such as where we spend and what we buy, how we travel and what we eat, can then improve our GreenScore.
In future customers will be able to see how they compare against other customers, friends, age-group peers and others.
Sign up to the Zero waitlist to discover your GreenScore and help us realise our vision to make money a force for the good of the planet.
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