Carbon Trust offers trade groups funding for green schemes
Trade groups and professional associations have until early January to apply for up to £140,000 of Carbon Trust funding
The Carbon Trust has called on trade groups to take advantage of a funding scheme that allows them to apply for up to £140,000 to support initiatives designed to limit carbon emissions.
Trade groups and professional associations interested in applying for the Networks Initiative funding now have until 9 January next year to submit a detailed plan outlining how the investment would help them deliver demonstrable and cost-effective CO2 emission savings.
The company said the funding could be used to support initiatives to highlight the cost of wasted energy and carbon emissions or accelerate the development of specific technical guidance and toolkits for firms keen to limit their carbon footprint.
The call for more applications was made at an event in London to assess the success of the 15 trade groups that received funding through the scheme last year, including the Institute of Hospitality, the UK Social Investment Forum and the Airport Operators Association.
"We believe that trade and professional bodies have an important role to play in championing carbon reduction measures among their member businesses and colleagues, and play an important part of our overall role in helping UK business and public-sector organisations cut CO2 emissions," said Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust. "We’d encourage anyone who wants to find out more to contact us."
The group said the scheme has already provided £2.5m of funding to support 41 different projects since it was launched in 2005, including an initiative to help landlords measure office buildings' carbon emissions from the British Property Federation and a project from the British Compressed Air Society to enhance the efficiency of compressed air systems.
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