Carbon Neutral Approach

At Ugeny, we're committed to responsible business practices that respect our planet. While technology always has some environmental impact, we've taken concrete steps to ensure our work is part of the solution, not the problem.

Understanding Our Footprint

Our AI rendering approach already has environmental advantages over traditional product photography:

  • No transportation emissions from crew, models, and equipment travel
  • No energy-intensive studio lighting
  • No physical props or materials that often become waste

We've worked with environmental experts to measure our specific impact:

  • Each final product image consumes around 0.38 kWh of energy
  • Our total annual GPU rendering operations generate around 22.5 kg of CO₂.
  • All personal computer usage combined contributes an additional ~126 kg of CO₂ per year.

Total operational footprint: ~153 kg CO₂ annually

Our Carbon Neutral Commitment

We've partnered with FairClimate Fund to offset our entire operational carbon footprint through certified carbon credits, making our business carbon neutral.

Why FairClimate Fund?

FairClimate Fund is a Dutch social enterprise founded in 2009 with a mission to create a fair climate. Their projects generate both Gold Standard and Fairtrade Carbon Credits, ensuring:

  • Community involvement and socioeconomic benefits for local households
  • No negative environmental effects
  • Fair prices for carbon credits, ensuring project sustainability

Their goal by 2030: provide cleaner cooking solutions for 1 million people while reducing 1 million tonnes of CO₂.

Certification Standards

As a certified B Corporation, FairClimate Fund meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance. Their Gold Standard certification is currently the most rigorous for carbon credits, ensuring projects deliver real climate benefits while supporting local communities.

Our Ongoing Commitment

While offsetting is an important step, we continue to explore ways to reduce our baseline energy consumption through optimization of our AI rendering processes and energy-efficient hardware.

We believe that businesses of all sizes have a responsibility to address their environmental impact. By taking meaningful action, we hope to demonstrate that sustainable business practices are both possible and practical.

Carbon Transparency

At Ugeny, we believe in clarity and accountability. Here's how we understand and report our emissions:

  • Scope 1 – Direct Emissions: ~176 kg CO₂/year
    Heating our small, shared office space — modest but measurable.
  • Scope 2 – Indirect Electricity Use: ~288 kg CO₂/year
    Powering three personal computers used for development, design, and operations.
  • Scope 3 – Value Chain Emissions: ~324 kg CO₂/year
    Includes cloud GPU rendering (and cooling overhead), embodied emissions from our computers, and our use of SaaS tools and digital infrastructure

Total Emissions: (Scope 1–3): ~0.79 tonnes CO₂/year

We offset 1 tonne of CO₂ each year — exceeding both our operational and total footprint.
We update this data quarterly and continuously seek ways to reduce it.

- Last updated Q2 2025

Want to know more? Reach out to us at merlijn@ugeny.io

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