The U.K.’s Top 50 law firms produced CO2 emissions equivalent to nearly 2,000 tanker trunks worth of gasoline from their U.K. operations in the 2019-20 financial year, according to analysis of firms’ carbon emissions reporting in their annual LLP accounts.
The overall emissions totalled nearly 150,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalents (tCO2e) which would require nearly 2.5 million tree seedlings to be grown for a decade in order to offset, according to data equivalency calculations provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
