SAFEGUARDING OUR ENVIRONMENT ONE CHOICE AT A TIME
Background
More than 190 countries including the UK have adopted the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change reached at COP21 in 2015. The Agreement aims to keep a rise in global temperatures to below 2°C from pre-industrial levels (1850), by the end of this century…
Continue reading Carbon Audits – what are they and why they are important for your business…
With the tightening of building regs, the new Environmental Act and the ‘race to zero’, the spotlight is very much on developers, main contractors and their supply chain to adopt more sustainable building practices. In our latest BLOG we showcase how Red Key Concepts Design & Build embraced this to help bring to market a stunning new development of old and new in a sensitive ecological area…
Continue reading Sustainability in Construction in Action… CASE STUDY
In 2019 The UK Government amended the Climate Change Act 2008 by introducing a target of at least a 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050. This is otherwise known as the ‘Net Zero’ target.
Continue reading How do I ‘Green’ my Business Supply Chain to hit ‘Net Zero 2050’…?
According to the Global Footprint Network, an influential charitable think tank much quoted by the UN and world governments, we currently consume the resource equivalent of 1.6 earths annually!
Earth ‘Overshoot Day’ – the day on which humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the Earth can regenerate – fell on July 29th in 2021, and in the UK it was even earlier on 19th May…
Continue reading The Sustainability Challenge for the UK’s Small Business Economy…