25 January 2021
Facilitating change: the smart benefits of going green
Matthew Margetts, director of sales and marketing at Smarter Technologies, discusses the benefits for facilities managers in creating green building environments
When workforces return to the office, environmental impact will need to remain a priority.
The UN Paris Agreement in 2015 aimed to limit the average rise in global temperatures to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, trying to keep the increase below 1.5°C. Since then, the issue of climate change has come to the fore for nations and, by extension, their enterprises.
In 2019, the UK made laws to commit to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. With an ever-increasing focus on carbon footprints, what should facilities managers be doing now to take advantage of climate change regulations, avoid penalties and taxes, and reduce their carbon footprints?