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So you want to know about Sustainability?

There are plenty of organisations offering good information and advice about sustainability and recycling
or for more in-depth consultancy services — should you wish to accurately measure your actions with a
view to attaining an environmental accreditation. We’ve listed a selection of the more high profile ones.

Action Sustainability
Action Sustainability aims to lead and inspire sustainable supply Environment Agency
chain management. It provides specialist business advice, training, The Environment Agency is an executive non-departmental public body
and practical tools to help deliver your sustainability objectives, responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
including identifying why sustainability is important to your Affairs. Its principal aims are to protect and improve the environment,
organisation; link your strategic goals to an effective sustainable and to promote sustainable development. It is responsible for
procurement strategy; implement your strategy throughout areas including regulation of major industry, waste regulation, and
your procurement team and supply chain and put in place contaminated land. It also helps small businesses comply with
measurement, evaluation and assurance mechanisms to ensure environmental legislation, and provides business sector advice.
your approach is embedded in everyday business practices and 0370 850 6506 • www.environment-agency.gov.uk
provides tangible benefits to you organisation.
0207 697 1977 • www.actionsustainability.com
Green Mark
The Carbon Trust Green Mark is a tailored environmental certification scheme,
which aims to improve the environmental performance of
The Carbon Trust is an independent, expert partner of leading
organisations around the world, helping them contribute to and businesses by identifying cost savings and helping them develop
an environmental management system. It also helps businesses
benefit from a more sustainable future through carbon reduction, comply with environmental legislation, gain a competitive
resource efficiency strategies and commercialising low carbon advantage, enhance opportunities and work towards international
technologies.
environmental accreditations such as ISO 14001 and EMAS.
020 7170 7000 • www.carbontrust.com 0208 1507 231 • www.greenmark.co.uk
82 Centre for Sustainable Energy Natural Capital Partners PB
The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) helps people and Natural Capital Partners is a consultancy based organisation
organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors meet that design solutions to businesses looking to reduce their
the twin challenges of rising energy costs and climate change. It environmental impacts. The company offers consultancy about
shares knowledge and practical experience to empower people renewable energy, carbon emissions measurement and offsetting,
and organisa tions to change the way they think and act about
energy. It achieves this by giving advice, managing innovative water stewardship, building supply chain resilience and the
energy projects, training others to act, and undertaking research protection of biodiversity.
and policy analysis. 020 7833 6000 • www.carbonneutral.com
0117 934 1400 • www.cse.org.uk
WRAP
Energy Saving Trust A not-for-profit company that helps businesses recycle more
and waste less by driving best practice in resource efficiency;
The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation, funded both
by government and the private sector. It is one of the UK’s leading facilitating business-to-business networks to find local markets
for waste materials including food, wood and packaging waste,
organisations set up to address the damaging effects of climate textiles and electrical goods and providing technical, marketing
change and has offices in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and and business support to SME resource management businesses
Wales. Its aim is to cut emissions of carbon dioxide by promoting to grow the UK’s capacity for recycling priority materials.
the sustainable and efficient use of energy.
020 7222 0101 • www.energysavingtrust.org.uk 01295 819900 • www.wrap.org.uk

Further help can be sought from

the following organisations:

Finance and Support for Businesses
Help and advice on finding government-backed support and finance for business, including
grants, finance and loans, business support, for example, mentoring, consultancy and funding
for small and medium-sized businesses and start-ups.
www.gov.uk/business-finance-support-finder

Department for International Trade
DTI works with UK based businesses to assist in international markets, and encourage the best
overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice.
020 7215 5000
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade

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