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SME toolkit: Reduce your carbon footprint

In this section of the site you will find simple guidance on how to put in place cost-effective carbon reduction strategies for your business

CBI has distilled the process into four easy-to-follow steps. We worked with government organisations such as Defra, DECC and Business in the Community to ensure the answers you find here match the methods they recommend.

The result: an SME Toolkit that provides a simple and practical guide to reducing carbon emissions, sharing the lessons learned as we all move forward on the challenge of reducing carbon emissions.

Keeping it simple...

We have organised the SME Toolkit around four simple steps designed to focus you quickly onto the most important contributions to your carbon emissions, ones over which you have the most direct control and where solutions are the most cost-effective:

Business reasons for action

Step 1: Measure your carbon footprint

Step 2: Manage your carbon footprint

Step 3: Reduce your carbon footprint

Step 4: Engage others in your efforts

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