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Kainos Group plc, commonly known as Kainos, is a leading UK-headquartered digital technology company. Established in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1986, it has grown significantly, operating across the UK, Europe, and North America. As a specialist in Computer and related services, Kainos delivers critical digital transformation programmes.
The company offers a comprehensive suite of digital services, including custom software development, experience design, and cloud solutions. Kainos is also a global leader in Workday implementation and optimisation services, leveraging its deep expertise to help organisations maximise their enterprise cloud investments.
Further distinguishing itself, Kainos provides innovative AI-powered automation solutions, such as its Smart product family, designed to enhance efficiency and assurance for clients. With a strong market position, Kainos helps both public and commercial sector clients achieve their digital ambitions through impactful technology.
+32 vs industry average
Kainos’s score of 70 is higher than 77% of the industry. This can give you a sense of how well the company is doing compared to its peers.
Computer Services has below-average carbon intensity
The Computer Services industry has reduced its overall emissions by 11% since 2018
Scope 3 accounts for ••• of total emissions.
Kainos, a UK-based company in the Computer and related services sector, reported its most recent carbon emissions for 2025 at 9,780,000 kg CO2e. This total includes Scope 1 emissions of 111,000 kg CO2e, Scope 2 emissions of 47,000 kg CO2e, and Scope 3 emissions of 9,622,320 kg CO2e. Key contributors to their Scope 3 emissions in 2025 were purchased goods and services (5,041,000 kg CO2e), business travel (2,252,000 kg CO2e), and employee commuting (1,635,000 kg CO2e).
Looking back, Kainos's total emissions in 2020 were 10,324,000 kg CO2e, consisting of 87,000 kg CO2e from Scope 1, 409,000 kg CO2e from Scope 2, and 9,828,000 kg CO2e from Scope 3.
Kainos has set ambitious climate commitments. They aim to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 70% by FY2026, using FY2020 as a baseline year. Additionally, they commit to reducing Scope 3 GHG emissions by 45% per unit of value added within the same timeframe, as validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The company is also striving to achieve net-zero for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2025. Kainos is a signatory of The Climate Pledge, which they signed in March 2022.
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70% reduction in Scope 2
Kainos Group commits to reduce absolute scope 2 GHG emissions by 70% by 2026 from a 2020 base year.
2026
70% reduction in Scope 1
Kainos Group commits to reduce absolute scope 1 GHG emissions by 70% by 2026 from a 2020 base year.
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45% reduction in scope 3 total
Kainos Group commits to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions by 45% per unit of value added by 2026 from a 2020 base year.
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