News Article - 24 February 2009
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Businesses can combine the economic climate with their own environmental agendas by controlling costs through accounting for carbon emissions, one sector commentator has claimed.

Margaret Hansen, global procurement director of corporate travel at AT Kearney, said that currently there was a "perfect convergence" between the financial downturn and environmental agendas, which did not happen frequently.

"Here is a clear case for companies to save money as well as carbon by looking at ways to reduce their business travel and we place it with virtual meanings with lower carbon emissions," she added.

Ms Hansen noted that it was a positive time when businesses had the opportunity to carry out a carbon trade off and help protect the earth.

And a recent survey by ACTE - KDS revealed that businesses are already taking corporate social responsibility (CSR) seriously.

While in 2008, 59 per cent of organisations had a CSR charter in place, today the figure has reached 61 per cent.

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