Listen: going green at work

This Earth Day, Ecologi, the UK’s leading climate action platform, has unveiled research revealing that 91 per cent of SME owners in the UK believe it’s important to be sustainable but they struggle due to a lack of guidance (42 per cent), efficient carbon footprint data (37 per cent) and time (37 per cent).

The survey of 500 UK SME owners also found that eight in 10 want their business to be more sustainable, while 83 per cent feel that the government needs to do more to educate and support them in their sustainability efforts. This comes despite them offering funding to help businesses in the UK become more sustainable as part of their commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

On a more promising note, the majority (84 per cent) feel their company is as environmentally friendly as it claims to be with 67 per cent of SMEs already having a sustainability strategy in place for their enterprise. But three in 10 admit their business ought to be more sustainable than it currently is, with nearly a third (31 per cent) blaming the pandemic for getting in the way of their short-term plans.

Aston spoke to Adam Boita, director of Ecologi.

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