Colleagues at Low Carbon Champions CIC suspect one of the barriers to adopting carbon reduction initiatives in very small businesses is the complexity involved in calculating and authenticating savings. That’s why they’re reducing our model to just three words: Measure, Reduce, Offset …
- Measure your carbon emissions. This can be approximate using on-line tools and adding a margin for error.
- Reduce where you can. Most reductions are common sense but there’s loads of help on line and from current and future Champions.
- Offset what’s left. It’s virtually impossible to reduce emissions to zero but you can balance or offset these to remove your overall carbon footprint.
They’ll be progressing the above with cohort 1 and then start recruiting for cohort 2 on 1 July.