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Finally some tips from green marketing expert Pamela Barbato, creator of online digital green resource hub Action Net Zero Bristol CIC.
She said,“ All business owners now need to understand and start to plan how to decarbonise their business operations, both directly through diesel and petrol vehicles, and indirectly through managing their supply chain, in line with net zero targets.
“ In 2019 Parliament passed legislation requiring the government to reduce the UK’ s net green house emissions by 100 per cent relative to 1990 by 2050, this will make the UK a net zero emitter. This is in accordance with the United Nations 2015 Paris agreement where there was a collective commitment from 97 parties to reduce GHG emissions and ensure that we
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keep temperature rises well below 2 degrees Celsius.
“ Historically business has made, used and thrown away. This is a linear production which results in high green house gas emissions, through use of coal and oil energy, diesel and petrol transportation, high beef production, cows emitting methane and so on.
“ All these processes are being rethought to ensure that we are creating a circular economy, one that does not waste and deplete the world’ s natural resources.”
Pamela says the first step is to know what part of your business is the worst area for greenhouse gases. For example do you run a fleet of vehicles? Do you have a high energy manufacturing process? Do you use waste lots of food? Do you use lots of plastic? Then work on ways to make changes to these.
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“ Start with simple things like making sure the tea bags you buy don’ t have plastic in them, using a recycling collection service to recycle everything you can. That
For more info: www. actionnetzero. org
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alone often saves you and your business money in the process. Could you or your landlord switch to a 100 per cent renewable energy supplier? Ask your suppliers to tell |
you what they are doing, so you learn from them and them from you. It’ s a journey that we now must all take.” |