Events

Your Carbon Impact: Measure It to Manage It

Tuesday 27th January, 12.30-1.30pm. Online.

Every organisation’s sustainability journey starts with understanding its carbon footprint. Not sure where to begin? This session is for you.

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What we covered:

For law firms and chambers, demonstrating meaningful climate action is becoming increasingly important – for clients, for recruitment, and for long-term resilience. Measuring your emissions is an essential first step. Done well, carbon accounting helps identify efficiencies, reduce costs, and communicate your progress with confidence.

  • Why counting your carbon matters – from client expectations to regulatory pressures and competitive advantage.
  • Getting started – the core principles of carbon measurement for professional services and what a first-year footprint typically looks like.
  • The data – understanding what you need, where to look for it and how to gather it efficiently.
  • Ways to measure your emissions – tools and methodologies.
  • From insight to action – using your footprint to identify hotspots and prioritise reductions.

Whether you’re starting out, or refining your approach, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to begin managing your organisation’s carbon impact.

Speakers

Jim Haywood

Jim Haywood

Managing Director | Woodman Farrow Ltd.

Jim is an independent sustainability consultant and Managing Director of Woodman Farrow Ltd.

Working in support of Achill Management, his clients have included the Legal Sustainability Alliance and its member firms, as well as the Bar Council of England and Wales. He has extensive experience engaging senior stakeholders across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, having held multiple senior executive roles.

Before founding his consultancy in 2011, Jim led Business in the Community’s (BITC) environmental campaigns, supporting multinational companies—including IBM, BT, EDF Energy, Unilever, Lloyds Banking Group, Alliance Boots, M&S and United Utilities—in developing Board-level sustainability programmes. He also created HRH The Prince of Wales’s Mayday Network, mobilising nearly 4,000 businesses to address resource depletion and climate change.

Jim previously established and led the Environment Agency’s National Flood Warning Centre and held senior environmental and quality management roles at The BOC Group and AMP Incorporated (now part of Tyco).

A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Jim sits on the Global Social Equivalence Programme’s expert panel. He is former Chair of Carbon Trust Assurance Ltd’s Impartiality Committee, a member of The Royal Warrants of Appointment Environmental and Social Review Committee, and a trained Total Quality Management facilitator and coach.

Jim began his career as a Royal Navy submarine engineering officer, working on both nuclear and diesel-electric submarines and in shore-based engineering and logistics roles.

His interests include model-making, art, music, gardening and birdwatching—passions he enjoys sharing with his three grandchildren.

Amanda Carpenter

Amanda Carpenter

CEO | Achill Legal

Amanda founded Achill Legal to enable her to do something positive about the state of the planet.

An optimist and lifelong conservationist, Amanda has spent her career as a changemaker in the climate space, now using her network and expertise to convene collaborations, creating the space for the challenging conversations which lead to ambitious action. 

Amanda Carpenter has run the Legal Sustainability Alliance since 2014, runs the secretariat for the Bar Sustainability Network and Greener Litigation Pledge, and is co-founder and runs the secretariat for the award-winning Legal Charter 1.5. 
She sits on the Bar Council Climate Crisis Working Group to help them deliver the Bar’s net zero target, and is also a trustee at the Environmental Law Foundation and member of Advisory Board of the Oxford Climate Policy Monitor.

She also set up and ran the award-winning environmental podcast Planet Pod and now co-hosts the Sustainable Law Podcast, talking to hundreds of changemakers in the sustainability space, sharing their ideas and inspiration with a growing audience. Amanda is also co-director and co-founder of Worple Press, an independent arts and poetry publishing house.