Climate Smart
Global warming is everybody’s business. That’s why Ecotrust Canada launched a business subsidiary that helps enterprises turn an environmental problem into a business opportunity.
Climate Smart is a cost-effective service providing small- and medium-sized enterprises with three streamlined workshops to teach you to measure, reduce and offset your carbon footprint. Climate Smart also offers four hours of one-on-one technical assistance by telephone and user-friendly software designed specifically to help you track your business’ greenhouse gas emissions.
In June 2009, Ecotrust Canada launched its Climate Smart program as a business subsidiary. For more information, visit www.climatesmartbusiness.com.
Salt Spring Coffee Co.project name:Salt Spring Coffee Co.video:Michael Contardi, Business Development Manager for Salt Spring Coffee Company, spoke to a Climate Smart group on Sept. 23, 2008, about how this organic, fair-trade company went carbon neutral.
So far some 100 businesses and organizations have learned how to measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprint through Climate Smart. The companies have an average carbon footprint of approximately 497 tonnes. The reported savings more efficient energy and material use is $150,000.
Climate Smart Pilotproject name:Climate Smart Pilotvideo:As negotiations were underway for a UN agreement on climate change in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007, a group of BC small businesses announced that they were committing to cut and offset their greenhouse gas emissions on average by 64 percent or 999 tonnes next year.
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Michelle Bonner
Vice President
t 604.254.6283
michelle@climatesmartbusiness.comFind out more about Climate Smart today.
