Low-carbon business resources

• Carbon footprint tool

  

  Use our online tool to see how everyday choices, from the emails you send to the transport you take, affect your carbon footprint – and find out how you can make a difference.
  

  Explore your footprint

• Carbon literacy e-learning

  

  A free carbon literacy e-learning resource to help public sector employees understand climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon footpinting. It's been put together by the Defra-led National Sustainable Public Procurement Programme in collaboration with the Clear About Carbon team and the Department of Health and the NHS.

  Access the e-learning resource

• Carbon calculator

  

  Measure, manage and minimise the impact of your business activities on the environment, using this carbon calculator that we’ve developed specially for companies. It measures the carbon impacts associated with electricity, heating, travel (cars, flights, etc) and waste

  Use the calculator

• Business leaders group

  

  This dynamic group of like-minded individuals comes from a diverse range of Cornish and aims to help companies overcome the threat posed by rising energy costs, diminishing natural resources and increasing regulation.
  

  More about the group

• Inspirational stories

  

  Read how Cornish businesses have saved money and cut carbon by making simple changes to their operations.

  Read Cornish case studies

• Carbon business training

  

  Sign up for one of the courses on offer to local professionals, as part of the Clear About Carbon programme. Training ranges from carbon management to leadership development to supply chain mapping.

  See our training offer

• Carbon jargon buster

  

  Do you know your carbon offsets from your carbon footprint? Cut through the jargon with our beginner's guide to the words and phrases that every leading business needs to know.

  Use our online jargon buster

• Clear About Carbon Videos

  

  Find out more about the Clear About Carbon programme from the team; hear from Eden's Tim Smit what the low-carbon economy holds for Cornwall; and see what happened at our most recent business event – all in our videos.

  Browse our videos

• Useful websites

  

  Clear About Carbon's guide to the most useful websites for businesses and public sectors employees to get advice, grants and inspiration on everything from carbon footprinting to waste audits to renewable energy to sustainable procurement.

  Browse our list of useful websites

Carbon footprint tool

See how everyday choices affect your carbon footprint – and find out how you can make a difference.

Explore the carbon tool

Why carbon matters

Eden’s Tim Smit and the Clear About Carbon team explain why it can no longer be business as usual.

Watch the video

Green growth boosts productivity, innovation and efficiency. It creates new markets and builds investor confidence and stability. And it is in the UK's direct economic interest to encourage it.

Chris Huhne, Energy and Climate Change Secretary