QuestGates launches Carbon Calculator and aims for net zero

Specialist loss adjusting firm QuestGates launched its own carbon calculator portal in a bid to achieve its net-zero goals.

The QuestGates Carbon Calculator was designed to accurately measure the carbon cost of remediation and reinstatement works to help the loss adjuster and its supplier network promote sustainable remediation techniques, eradicate waste sent to landfill and drive the use of energy efficient plant and equipment.

QuestGates’s calculator will offer up to four different approaches on each claim, which will enable insurers and their customers to evaluate the carbon cost of the proposed works and factor that into their chosen approach.

Commenting on the launch, Greg Laker, director at QuestGates, said: “The benefits of calculating carbon emissions are significant—not just on the environmental claims that we manage, but across our entire property portfolio.

“It will enable us to facilitate a remedial options appraisal that not only factors in efficacy, financial cost and timescale but also how environmentally sustainable each option would be in terms of measured carbon footprint.

“This tool is going to play a major part in helping us to achieve our own net zero goals, but also help our insurer partners to measure their Scope 3 emissions.”

The QuestGates Carbon Calculator was developed in partnership with its own panel of environmental consultants and specialist carbon consultancy Blue Marble.

The loss adjuster has successfully tested the calculator on a number of completed environmental claims involving remediation of contaminated sites and is now rolling it out on all property claims.

Richard Lawrence, environmental technical and complex loss director at QuestGates, explained: “There are a number of schemes and calculators in existence, but none are tailored to environmental claims nor do they have the flexibility to be applied to each individual property claim or project that our business manages.

“The Carbon Calculator that we have developed with our partners uses data derived from published UK government data combined with industry and carbon consultancy research, with applied units expressed in terms of CO2e emissions, considering concepts of the Green House Gas Protocol.”

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Mark Dugdale