Bristol firms 'accounting for carbon'

News Article - 29 August 2008
Category: Environment

Hundreds of businesses which supply the public sector with goods and services will be formally asked to disclose information about their carbon footprint and climate change strategy, it has been revealed.

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced that it is working on a pilot scheme with several government departments.

Bodies like the Foreign Office, Essex County Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum are to send formal request to their suppliers for data on how they are dealing with climate change issues, like CO2 emissions.

"The public sector has enormous power to shape new markets through its procurement practices and these organisations are showing the way in the development of a low-carbon economy," said Paul Dickinson, chief executive of CDP.

"By joining this project the public sector has positioned itself at the cutting edge of this issue and will be learning with the private sector, rather than from it."

The CDP consists of 385 institutional investors and has previously promoted carbon reporting standards in multi-national firms to ensure corporate responsibility when it comes to climate change, but is now targeting the public sector.

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