Groundbreaking initiative helps SMEs put the boot into carbon footprints
Small businesses across the country can now measure, monitor and minimise their carbon footprint - without having to pay the earth.
Leading Oracle business consultancy service, Shepperton.com has joined forces with Carbon Clear, to launch Carbon Intelligence - a cost-effective software-based solution designed to help any sized business reduce its carbon emissions.
According to Bill Cannon, founder of Shepperton.com and the brains behind Carbon Intelligence, large-scale companies are already implementing carbon offsetting to meet their corporate responsibility programmes, but many smaller companies feel phased by the price tag involved.
"Carbon Intelligence is an accessible way for SMEs to become carbon responsible," says Cannon.
"Put simply, carbon offsetting is the use of a financial instrument to calculate a company's carbon emissions; the company can then make financial donations to environmental projects that reduce the equivalent amount of carbon."Carbon Intelligence offers companies a straightforward way of doing this."
Alongside the installation and implementation of standard Oracle systems, Shepperton.com now offers Carbon Intelligence, an Oracle-compatible carbon offsetting software, which provides businesses with a clear methodology for carbon planning, budgeting and reporting.
The software comes with government directives on how to comply with carbon audits, while also offering clear strategy for in-house carbon reductions that won't cost the earth.
"Greed might have been the buzzword in the 80s, but wouldn't it be fantastic if we could put caring at the heart of the business world this decade," says Cannon.
"Business affects the environment and the people in it and I honestly believe that being accountable for both of these will in no way hinder the running of a successful company."