How to reduce your business carbon footprint

In the year 2006, the Oxford University Press named ‘carbon neutral’ as the term of the year. The following year UK businesses had a meeting conducted to discuss issues related to climate change and the various methods that could be put to action to reduce carbon footprints.

Adopting a few measures can help you reduce business CO2 usage or output:

• Turn off the electrical goods when not needed.
• Switch off computers, photocopiers, printers and chargers during the night.
• Turn of the light when business premises are not in use.

This adds up to significant economic and footprint savings during a whole financial year.

According to the UK Carbon Trust, the carbon footprint is the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product.

The Carbon Trust published a scheme to measure a product’s carbon emissions. This scheme, termed ‘cradle to grave’ specifies that a company must be able to measure the total carbon emissions from the sourcing of raw materials to dumping of any given product. As soon as this scheme of UK carbon trust comes into effect it will charge the carbon generated against extraction, production, transportation, distribution and disposal of the goods.

There are certain areas where a product’s carbon footprint can be considerably reduced and using air conditioning units that run on alternatives to R22 gases is one of them.