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PA Consulting

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Decarbonisation trajectory · all scopes
Scope 1 + 2· base 2019 · 1k tCO2eScope 3· base 2019 · 2k tCO2e

Headline intensities

Reporting year 2024·Values in USD ($)· normalised from GBP at FY2024 avg rate
Peer cohort: Consulting · lower is better
Revenue intensity
Carbon / $m revenue
17.6tCO2e / $m

Carbon per million dollars of revenue. The legacy industry-standard reference (CDP, MSCI). Useful for cross-sector context, but distorted by margin — high-margin firms appear artificially efficient. Read alongside the operational and asset intensities for the full picture.

Above median
better than 61% of peers
best 7.74n=12 peersworst 35.5
Operational intensity
Carbon / $m OpEx
20.1tCO2e / $m

OpEx (operating expenditure) is the running cost of the business — staff, services, energy, materials. This shows how carbon-intensive operations are per million dollars of spend. Removes the margin distortion that revenue-based ratios introduce.

Above median
better than 74% of peers
best 8.23n=12 peersworst 51.0
Economic intensity
Carbon / $m EVIC
tCO2e / $m

EVIC (Enterprise Value Including Cash) is the firm's total capital footprint — equity + debt + cash + minority interest. The EU's standard intensity measure (SFDR PAI 3) — answers: how much carbon does each million of capital deployed in this business produce?

Asset intensity
Carbon / $m PP&E + leased
209tCO2e / $m

PP&E (Property, Plant & Equipment) plus leased real-estate assets is the firm's physical infrastructure on the balance sheet. This shows the carbon intensity of that physical footprint — uses Scope 1+2+3 for consistency with the other headline intensities. Surfaces stranded-asset risk for asset-heavy firms.

Below median
better than 46% of peers
best 31.2n=12 peersworst 1.3k
Workforce intensity
Carbon / FTE
0.28tCO2e / FTE

Carbon per FTE (full-time-equivalent employee) — the diagnostic measure for people-leveraged businesses where headcount, not capital, drives delivery. Captures the office, energy and travel footprint per person.

Below median
better than 28% of peers
best 0.02n=15 peersworst 0.41

Climate action evidence

10 records · 1 source
Carbon credits retired
1,337 tCO2e
10 retirements · FYNaN–NaN · third-party verified
By credit quality
  • Nature-based removals103 tCO2e(8%)
  • Avoidance / reductions1,035 tCO2e(77%)
  • Unclassified199 tCO2e(15%)
Retirement records(top 8 by volume of 10)
  • 2021 HT HFC Reclamation Project Champaign 2021 · acr668 tCO2e
  • 2023 A-Gas V14 · acr318 tCO2e
  • 2017-06-04 Grouped Reforestation Project by Cropzone Agro Forestry Private Limited · verra199 tCO2e
  • 2019 UPM Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation & Carbon Sequestration Project · acr103 tCO2e
  • 2020 A-Gas V9 · acr25 tCO2e
  • 2014-01-01 April Salumei Rainforest Community Conservation Project · verra7 tCO2e
  • 2014-01-01 April Salumei Rainforest Community Conservation Project · verra5 tCO2e
  • 2014-01-01 April Salumei Rainforest Community Conservation Project · verra4 tCO2e
+ 2 more retirements not shown
Renewable electricity
99 %
Self-reported renewable electricity share, FY2024
Sources
  • · berkeley_voluntary_registry
Registry retirements are direct evidence; commitments are forward-looking pledges. EPA snapshot covers FY2019–FY2020.

Targets

Near-term

3 targets
ScopeBaseTargetReductionAlignmentProgressStatus
Scope 1 + 2Absolute20192030−75%1.5°C
17.1% reductionof −75% target · 23% there
Off track
Scope 220192030−100%1.5°Cinsufficient data
Scope 320192030−55%
0.0% reductionof −55% target · 0% there
Off track

Long-term

2 targets
ScopeBaseTargetReductionAlignmentProgressStatus
Scope 1 + 2Absolute20192040−90%1.5°C
17.1% reductionof −90% target · 19% there
Off track
Scope 320192040−97%
0.0% reductionof −97% target · 0% there
Off track

Net zero

1 target
ScopeBaseTargetReductionAlignmentProgressStatus
Scope 1 + 2 + 3201920401.5°Cabsolute-value target

⚠ Some targets show progress vs the earliest extracted year as a baseline approximation. The real base-year value will be used once historical reports are extracted.

Progress · absolute tCO2e

Scope 1 + 2 trajectory vs target
Scope 1 + 2 · 75% by 2030 · 1.5°C
ActualLinear1.5°C
Scope 3 trajectory vs target
Scope 3 · 55.00000000000001% by 2030
ActualLinear1.5°C

Latest news· last 5 of 29

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  • Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) credits purchased

    PA invested in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Scope 3 credits, contributing -50 tCO2e mitigation in Category 6 business travel for 2024. Described as small but a long-term partnership commitment.

    2024
  • 2023 restructuring concluded; headcount down 7%

    Restructuring actions undertaken in 2023 concluded in 2024. Average fee-earning headcount was seven percent lower than in 2023, with personnel costs reducing by £41.3m / 8%. Total average employees fell from 4,201 to 3,895.

    2024
  • Strategic partnership with Jacobs continues; 65% Jacobs ownership

    PA is 65% owned by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and 35% by employees. Joint go-to-market with Jacobs continues. Ultimate controlling entity is Jacobs Solutions Inc.

    2024
  • Science-Based Targets validated in 2024

    PA Consulting's Science-Based Targets were validated/approved in 2024, covering all operations and the whole GHG inventory. Targets: reduce Scope 1+2 emissions by 75%, reduce Scope 3 emissions intensity (per £m EBITDA) by 55%, source 100% renewable electricity - all by 2030 from a 2019 baseline. Net zero across value chain by 2040.

    2024
  • Added Scope 3 Cat 11 (Use of sold products) and Cat 12

    New Scope 3 categories appeared in 2023/2024 disclosure - Category 11 (Use of sold products) at 193 tCO2e and Category 12 (End of life treatment of sold products) - that were not in baseline. Increases reporting completeness.

    2024

Latest reporting year· 4 earlier years on Data-by-year tab

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2024

reporting year
Financials
Revenue928.30MGBP
OpEx813.70MGBP
FTE3.9kheadcount
Market cap (FY-end)
Climate
Scope 1314tCO2e
Scope 2 (market)tCO2e
Scope 2 (location)768tCO2e
Scope 3 total19.8ktCO2e
Scope 3 breakdown
Cat 1 · Purchased goods9.0ktCO2e
Cat 6 · Business travel5.1ktCO2e
Cat 7 · Employee commuting4.2ktCO2e
Cat 8 · Upstream leased173tCO2e
Energy
Renewable energy %99.0%

Source documents· FY2024· 3 earlier docs on Data-by-year tab

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annual report2024
via companies house · 2.3 MB
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