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Reduce your Carbon Footprint
Advice, tools and support from Scottish Business in the Community for helping you begin the carbon reduction journey.
Reducing carbon emissions is about taking practical steps and actions to reduce the carbon emissions as a result of your business operations. Often these actions result in other business benefits including improved operational efficiencies and reduced costs. The Mayday Journey considers reduction activities across four key areas, energy, transport, waste and water.
What is reducing carbon emissions?
Your business can reduce carbon emissions from your direct and indirect business operations. Direct reductions can be made by changing the way your business operates, for example using less energy, reducing business travel, and switching to greener forms of energy.
Your business can also indirectly reduce carbon emissions by changing the way you operate with stakeholders. For example purchasing and developing low carbon products and services, and raising awareness with your suppliers.
Why should my business reduce carbon emissions?
Reducing carbon emissions can result in cost savings and improvements in operational efficiency. These and additional benefits include:
- Improved understanding of your carbon emissions
- Potential costs savings through operational efficiency
- Being better able to react to environmental legislation
- Means to secure senior management commitment and wider organisational support
- Improved corporate reputation and brand enhancement
- Benefitting investor and consumer relationships
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