Ulster Carpets reduces carbon footprint by 9%

28 Mar '09

5 min read

In April 2010, organisations with an annual electricity spend in excess of £500,000 will be legally obliged to participate in the scheme, which makes businesses financially accountable for their operational carbon emissions over a certain threshold. Depending on which approach is more cost-effective, companies can invest in more carbon-efficient technology, implement carbon-saving measures, or purchase allowances to cover emissions which go over their threshold.

The Carbon Trust Standard is one of only two 'early action metrics' that are recognised by the Government and those organisations which hold the Carbon Trust Standard will receive a higher ranking in the CTC league table, achieving a greater recycle payment.

Carbon Trust Standard:
The Carbon Trust Standard shows which businesses and organisations are taking real action on climate change and have reduced the own carbon emissions. It is awarded to a whole or part of an organisation that is reducing its emissions year on year.

Carbon Label:
In March 2007 the Carbon Trust launched the Carbon Reduction Label which reveals the carbon footprint of the products and services we use and demonstrates a commitment from companies to reduce the carbon footprint of their products. Carbon Reduction Labels allow us greater comparability around the things we buy and use in order to see those that have the lowest impact on climate change.

Together the Carbon Trust Standard and the Carbon Reduction Label let people see which organisations are truly reducing their own emissions and begin to understand the carbon footprint of individual products. We encourage organisations to do both – to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard by reducing the emissions they directly control and to tackle emissions they create indirectly through their supply chain by putting the Carbon Reduction Label on their products.

The Carbon Trust:
The Carbon Trust is an independent company set up by government in response to the threat of climate change, to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies. The Carbon Trust works with UK business and the public sector through its work in five complementary areas: insights, solutions, innovations, enterprises and investments. Together these help to explain, deliver, develop, create and finance low carbon enterprise.

The Carbon Trust Standard

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