Business & sustainability
5 June 2009 - Consultation: Draft guidance on how to measure and report your greenhouse gas emissions.
Latest news: What's the carbon footprint of your product?
Businesses have a major role to play in helping protect and enhance the environment, in line with wider goals of sustainable development. The move to a sustainable, low carbon and resource efficient future also offers opportunities for creating economic growth and job creation.
The UK Sustainable Development Strategy - Securing the future - highlights the need for business' approach to corporate responsibility to extend throughout their supply chains, tackling issues at extraction of raw materials through to engagement with consumers about the products and services they buy and eventually discard.
Sound environmental management of processes and products is regarded as a core business issue, that can help promote a company's products and services, and improve its corporate standing. Many UK businesses could also save money and use less by making quite simple changes in the way they use resources like energy and water and how they handle waste.
Government has a key role to play and will work closely with business to encourage sustainable, low carbon and resource efficient patterns of consumption and production by:
- Encouraging best practice by providing tools, guidance and information to help businesses choose the most sustainable behaviours.
- Leading by example by establishing policy frameworks and ensuring Government procures sustainable products.
- Setting standards through EU regulatory frameworks and industry guidance to ensure that minimum requirements are implemented for key product groups.
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Page last modified: 8 April 2009
Page published: 27 November 2002