SME webinar: Sustainability in the sharing economy

Our monthly broadcast will help support you through the next phase, giving you expert insight and intelligence to continue adapting, and providing the guidance you need to restart and boost your business, and build resilience for the new normal.

Speakers:

• Deborah Fraser, Chief Commercial Officer, CBI (chair)
• Juliet Eccleston, Chair, CBI Sharing Economy Council; CEO and Founder, AnyGood?
• Cecilia Parker Aranha, Director of Consumer Protection, CMA
• Lars Nordhild Rønning, Founder and CEO, Ailuna

In this session:

We explored sustainability practices SMEs can implement to successfully transition to Net Zero, the key to building greener habits, and how to ensure you’re not breaching the Green Claims Code.

Key takeaways:

• How does an SME navigate this space? Go to a trusted organisation that are certifying projects. 

• Be practical, set targets, teach yourself.
• Businesses are on a journey, there is no need to try and prove a point, radical transparency is important
• Make what you’re doing public, set achievable goals and tell the world about it.
• CMA lobbying government to consider supply-chain transparency to enable businesses to make informed choices.

Supporting resources:

• SME Climate Hub
• ESG: why SMEs should care and how to get started
• The CBI and decarbonisation: supporting SMEs on their journey to net zero
• SME Webinar on Net Zero
• Sustainable finance: a key issue for every business
• The Net Zero Review and implications for policy
• Climate Change Support for SMEs