Reduce Your Business Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Without doubt, the most fundamental step an organisation should take to minimise its impact on the global climate is to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Completing a free carbon emissions audit can reveal your organisation’s major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and highlight areas in which action to reduce emissions can be taken.

All sectors of the global economy will need to make deep cuts in emissions. Relying on another sector (such as land use) to offset emissions that are avoidable cannot succeed in addressing the climate change problem. As such, it is WLT’s belief is that carbon offsetting should only be used in conjunction with measures to reduce emissions at source, within a broader environmental strategy.

There are many simple steps which can significantly reduce the emissions associated with energy use of an organisation. Some links to organisations providing advice are given below.

• Carbon Reduction Programme – http://www.uea.ac.uk/lcic/cred offers advice to organisations wishing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
• Carbon Trust – www.carbontrust.co.uk work with business to identify carbon emissions and ways to reduce them (including funding).
• Energy Saving Trust – www.energysavingtrust.org.uk encourages energy efficiency and promotes the use of renewable energy sources.

Having calculated your firm’s emissions and considered actions to reduce them at source, you can work with the WLT to offset unavoidable emissions.