Campaign to save £1 million a day
February 1st 2009 The Carbon Trust is campaigning to try and help UK businesses through the recession by saving at least £1 million a day through cost effective action on climate change.
The campaign is backed by business groups, leading companies, and Dragons’Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, all urging business to immediately prioritise cutting carbon by saving energy to cut costs.
In its ‘One Million A Day’ campaign, the Carbon Trust is urging businesses of all sizes to join up and prioritise actions to kick-start immediate energy savings, reduce carbon emissions and make significant direct costs savings.SMEs are also being encouraged to take advantage of a £35 million Carbon Trust fund to upgrade or replace existing equipment to more energy efficient versions using unsecured, interest-free loans ranging from £5000 up to £200,000.
The campaign’s target is to help save the UK economy £1 billion over the next three years and reduce the UK’s carbon emissions by at least 17m tonnes CO2 - the equivalent to annual emissions from heating nearly 5.5 million average UK homes.
The three key areas highlighted for immediate action are: Energy Management, Improved Lighting, Efficient Heating More articles from WEE News Desk: | 
