After setting a 2025 net-zero target for operational emissions last year, facilities management firm Mitie has outlined how it plans to reduce emissions from its estate in line with this goal.
Achieving Net-Zero Carbon Heating: Six Top Tips for Businesses
19 May 2021
Produced in partnership with Centrica Business Solutions,
this handy ‘top tips’
guide provides organisations across the private and public
sector with six clear
and concise pieces of advice on adopting low-carbon heating
technologies
and processes.
What are the key considerations for organisations looking to make the heat transition? Which technologies and systems are best for different contexts? What steps can energy and sustainability professionals take to maximise the benefits of things like heat pumps or hydrogen, and to sell these benefits to the board and other key stakeholder groups?
This new, free-to-download guide answers these key questions in six concise points, helping energy and sustainability professionals to tackle a key source of emissions on the road to net-zero.
A SPORTS club has won a nine-year ‘David and Goliath’ battle with the tax man that could have left it financially crippled and facing closure. Westow Cricket Club makes just a few hundred pounds of profit each year from members’ subs and the sale of refreshments at matches, but was landed with a penalty of more than £20,000 for inadvertently issuing an incorrect VAT certificate, despite the fact that it had sought advice from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) before doing so. However, at a recent tribunal hearing, the case against the club was dropped, much to the relief of the volunteers who run it.
Net-Zero Business podcast: Inside the UK s low-carbon heat transition
In response to the accelerated pace at which corporates are examining and setting net-zero targets to help alleviate the climate crisis, edie s monthly Net-Zero Business podcast was created. Up next, we talk low-carbon heat with Centrica Business Solutions and the Heat Pump Federation.
All edie podcast episodes can be listened to via iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud
Following on from the UK Government’s world-leading net-zero carbon commitment, edie’s new spinoff podcast series, Net-Zero Business, will hear from the trendsetters and trailblazers of responsible businesses.
Since the UK Government set it’s 2050 net-zero target into law, more and more businesses are attempting to get ahead of the political curve by strengthening carbon and energy strategies and pledging to become net-zero businesses well before the 2050 deadline.