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The Carbon Trust was set up by Government in 2001 as an independent company. Their mission is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies.

Energy-Efficiency Loans

The Carbon Trust provides interest free loans to invest in energy saving projects such as improved lighting, boilers or insulation.

Carbon Surveys

Our expert consultants identify energy saving opportunities and provide practical advice on how to achieve them, helping you reduce your carbon footprint and save money.
 

Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs)

ECAs permit 100% of the capital cost of approved energy saving equipment to be offset against corporation tax.

Design Advice Service

Promotes the construction of more energy efficient non-domestic buildings. Support ranges from self-help guidance to free or subsidised design and construction consultancy.
 

Private Sector Carbon Management

Designed for large organisations who wish to manage and reduce their carbon emissions while growing profitably.

Networks

Offers financial support, information and consultancy to trade and professional bodies and unions, as well as funding for projects leading to quantifiable reductions in carbon emissions.

Local Authority Carbon Management

Provides councils with technical and change management support and guidance to help them realise carbon emission savings from areas under their control.

Higher Education Carbon Management

A university-focused service which provides technical and change management support to help realise carbon emission savings.

Applied Research Grants

Funding available to UK businesses and research institutions to support the development of commercially viable technologies with the potential to reduce carbon emissions.

Technology Acceleration

Moves low carbon technologies closer to commercialisation. Projects include reducing costs, removing barriers to adoption and supporting shared infrastructure.

Carbon Vision

A partnership between the Carbon Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, supporting university based research studies to explore the transition to a low carbon economy.

Incubators

Provides strategic and business development consultancy advice on corporate finance, mentoring for the management team, energy-related market research and guidance on technical support.

Venture Capital

Finances emerging clean energy technology businesses that demonstrate commercial potential.

Commercialisation

Creates new, high-growth, low-carbon businesses by identifying opportunities and combining key skills and resources.

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Calculate your organisation's Carbon footprint

Climate change is increasingly recognised as a major challenge, and it is widely accepted that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by humans are having a negative impact on the environment.

The total set of GHG emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organisation, event or product is commonly called their ‘carbon footprint’. Calculating the carbon footprint of an organisation can be the first step in a programme to reduce the emissions it causes.

Is Climate Change Really Happening?

Climate change is emerging as one of the great challenges for modern society. Despite decades of research, important things remain uncertain, but much is now established beyond reasonable doubt.
 

The basic mechanics of climate change are well understood; the world is warming, much of the warming is due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the changes are set to accelerate in the future, bringing many and varied impacts around the world.

Over the past 140 years the earth's surface temperature (over land and sea) has increased on average by 0.6±0.2o C with the greatest increases occurring the second half of the last century; the 1990s were the warmest years in recorded history. Although this rise in temperature may appear small, it is scientifically significant and does have dramatic impacts on climate, e.g. Northern Europe is predicted to become wetter and the Mediterranean drier.

Since the 1950s scientists have observed the retreat of mountain glaciers, a shrinking of the Artic ice cap as well as a lengthening of the freeze-free season.

Warming increases evaporation and precipitation, and both aggregate rainfall and occurrences of 'heavy precipitation events' at European latitudes - the principal cause of flooding - has also increased in recent decades. There is also evidence that the frequency and intensity of storms is increasing in certain areas.

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