The Future is GREEN for Businesses
More and more companies based in the UK and internationally are calling on the EU to prioritise tackling climate change, which continues to be an ever growing problem. This includes the likes of popular supermarket IKEA, who want to see a decarbonisation strategy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
There has been a push of signatories from several industries such as energy, chemicals, retail, automotive, farming and food and drinks – which collectively represents in excess of 1.5 million employees from across Europe. This is a positive step as large businesses are the most important when it comes to tackling climate change, as they can make the biggest impact.
The approach has also been pushed by thousands of workers at Amazon, who signed a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos and the board of directors. They called for more action to be taken by the company on climate change.
It is also good news in Britain who have set a new record as it goes coal-free for a week!
This was passed last week and was the first ever week of the electricity system being ran coal-free. This was confirmed on the 8th May by the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO). The ESO is now pushing to have reached a zero-carbon power grid by 2025. This shows great progression in recent years when it comes to tackling coal power production.
Fintan Slye (Director of ESO) has also stated that coal-free electricity generation is now going to be a far more “regular occurrence”, as more renewables come onto the electricity grid. He has also predicted that a coal-free week will become the new normal within the near future. Another hugely positive step for the UK.
This push for a zero-carbon operation of the electricity system by 2025, will mean a change to how the system was initially designed to operate. This means the likes of domestic scale solar panels and large-scale offshore wind. Also using new smart digital systems is a new approach that helps to control the system at all times.
Greg Clark (Business and Energy Secretary) has also welcomed this positive news. He stated this is a huge leap forward going a week without coal for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Eliminating coal entirely by 2025 will help build and cleaner and greener energy system in the UK. This is as Britain continues to lead the push when it comes to tackling climate change, as they continue to break records, and are on a path to become the first major economy to legislate for net zero emissions.
Small changes to a business can make a big positive outcome on their carbon footprint
