Useful Links
Bureau Veritas: www.bureauveritas.co.uk
Consultancy which helps clients comply with standards and regulations relating to Quality, Health & Safety, Environment and Social Responsibility.
Business Link: www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer
Practical advice for businesses including how to green your business.
Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL): www.cpi.cam.ac.uk
A forum bringing business leaders together to challenge and debate environmental issues, including Senior Executive seminars.
Carbon Disclosure Project: www.cdproject.net
The Carbon Disclosure Project is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world. Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP.
Carbon Neutral Company: www.carbonneutral.com
Carbon offset and climate consultancy.
Carbon Retirement: www.carbonretirement.com
Social enterprise offering a reliable and award-winning approach to carbon offsetting.
Carbon Trust: www.carbontrust.co.uk
The Carbon Trust supports low carbon technologies and helps businesses and the carbon sector cut carbon emissions.
Carbon Trust Empower: http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/empower
This interactive application allows employees to take a virtual tour of a typical office building to learn how to make environmental improvements, such as turning off unused equipment or avoiding unnecessary corporate travel.
DECC: www.decc.gov.uk
DEFRA : www.defra.gov.uk
Earthwatch: www.earthwatch.org
Engages people and companies in scientific research projects and expeditions to promote sustainable development.
Energy Saving Trust: www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
Energy Saving Trust aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy.
Natural England: www.naturalengland.org.uk
An organisation working to enhance biodiversity, landscapes and wildlife in rural, urban, coastal and marine areas; promote access, recreation and public well-being; and contribute to the way natural resources are managed so that they can be enjoyed now and in the future.
Environment Agency: www.environment-agency.gov.uk
The leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales.
Envirowise: www.envirowise.gov.uk
Envirowise delivers a government-funded programme of free, confidential advice to UK businesses. Looks specifically at resource efficiency.
Forum for the Future: www.forumforthefuture.org.uk
A charity committed to sustainable development, Forum for the Future works with over 120 leading businesses and organisations to bring about change.
Freecycle: www.freecycle.org
A global network for individuals and communities that want to recycle.
GHG Protocol: www.ghgprotocol.org
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, works with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
Global Action Plan: www.globalactionplan.org.uk
An independent charity committed to engaging people in practical solutions to environmental and social problems.
Green Alliance: www.green-alliance.org.uk
Green Alliance is an influential environmental think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues.
Groundwork: www.groundwork.org.uk
Groundwork is an environmental regeneration charity. Partnership with local people, local authorities and business to promote economic and social regeneration.
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA): www.iema.net
The IEMA is a not-for-profit membership organisation established to promote best practice standards in environmental management, auditing and assessment.
International Institute of Environment and Development: www.iied.org
An independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies and networking.
Leapfrog: http://carbonleapfrog.org/home
Leapfrog is a unique business-led not-for-profit organisation that channels pro bono (free) services from top businesses into activities that deliver carbon reductions.
Members are drawn from all professions. They believe urgent action is required to help combat climate change and are willing to give of their skills and time to support climate change initiatives that are already delivering change.
The objectives are to help those initiatives overcome hurdles that may be slowing down their progress and effectiveness and to help roll them out more quickly to a wider audience. Leapfrog targets initiatives that could have a scaleable and widespread impact and provide professional support to clean technology initiatives and entrepreneurs.
legalsupportnetwork.co.uk: www.legalsupportnetwork.co.uk
A community website for professionals shaping the operational, business services and support agendas of law firms and solicitors practices throughout the UK.
London remade: www.londonremade.com
Organisation helping London reduce, reuse and recycle its waste by developing markets for recycled materials to be made into new products.
London Sustainability Exchange: www.lsx.org.uk
A charity which provides organisations and networks of individuals with the motivation, knowledge, and connections they need to put sustainability into practice.
Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org
The site of America's largest grassroots environmental organisation contains useful ideas on how to take action on the environment.
Skeptical Science: www.skepticalscience.com/
Skeptical Science explains what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming. The website that has good answers to lots of controversial questions on climate science, including a summary of global warming and climate change myths vs what the science says. This infpormation is also available as an excellent iPhone app.
Sustainable Development Commission: www.sd-commission.org.uk
The Government's independent watchdog on sustainable development.
The Climate Group: http://theclimategroup.org/about-us/
An independent, nonprofit organisation dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change.
The Prince's Mayday Network: www.maydaynetwork.com/
The Prince's Mayday Network is the UK’s largest group of businesses committed to taking action on climate change. Over 2,400 businesses of all sizes and from all sectors have signed-up to date, and collectively they promise to play a powerful role reducing the UK's carbon emissions. The Prince's Mayday Network is convened by Business in the Community, and helps businesses realise benefits from taking action on climate change. It helps them through practical support, and by profiling their low carbon activities.
The Royal Society: http://royalsociety.org/Climate-change-controversies/
The Royal Society has produced an overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand some of the debates in this complex area of science.
This is not intended to provide exhaustive answers to every contentious argument that has been put forward by those who seek to distort and undermine the science of climate change and deny the seriousness of the potential consequences of global warming. Instead, the Society - as the UK's national academy of science - responds here to eight key arguments that are currently in circulation by setting out, in simple terms, where the weight of scientific evidence lies. The Royal Society has also produced a new guide to the science of climate change. The guide summarises the current scientific evidence on climate change and its drivers.
The Wildlife Trusts: www.wildlifetrusts.org
The largest UK voluntary organisation dedicated to conserving the full range of the UK’s habitats and species.
Trucost: www.trucost.com
An environmental research organisation working with companies, investors and government agencies to understand the impacts companies have on the environment. Trucost is an independent organisation founded in 2000.
WRAP: www.wrap.org.uk
WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often.
WWF UK: www.wwf.org.uk
WWF-UK is the UK arm of the WWF Network, the world’s leading environmental organisation founded in 1961 and now active in over 100 countries.
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