Carbon accounting software can boost green credentials

News Article - 27 May 2008
Category: Environment

Carbon
accounting software can boost green credentials

MPs have called on the Carbon Trust to do more to help small businesses to improve their energy efficiency and firms can adopt carbonaccounting software to reduce their impact on the environment.

According to a report by the House of Commons committee of public accounts, more support is required to improve the green credentials of Britain's small businesses.

Small firms need to be persuaded that energy efficiency measures make commercial as well as environmental sense and encouraged to invest in low carbon technologies, according to the committee of MPs.

Carbonaccounting software can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to substantially reduce their CO2 emissions, cutting costs and benefiting the environment.

Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, said: "A lot of businesses, especially smaller ones, are yet to be convinced that improving their energy efficiency makes commercial sense. The Carbon Trust must provide evidence to the contrary and also aim to assist more eligible small businesses under its interest free loan incentive scheme."

The Carbon Trust provides access to interest-free loans to small businesses planning to purchase equipment that will reduce their carbon footprints.

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