Climate change

With the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and address inevitable climate change, the pressure is on to deliver cost effective responses in these areas and at all levels.

The problem: You’re a business, social enterprise, community organisation or public sector provider and understand that action on climate change is needed and there is an opportunity to save money, for example, through careful investment in renewable energy. However, other competing concerns and mixed messages coming from Government, the Boardroom and elsewhere, make tackling the subject a struggle. 

The solution: Sustainable Change Co-operative has a track record of working on practical and strategic climate change issues and can develop appropriate responses to assist you. Carbon emission reduction and climate change impacts are components of the wider sustainability challenge and solutions are designed to reflect this and your specific situation. Services include:

• Specialist research and strategy development
• Assessment of risks and opportunities relating to climate change impacts
• Support to accelerate new or existing projects
• Renewable energy options appraisal (wind, solar PV, solar thermal, woodfuel, ground & air source heat pumps) including on-site visit plus report detailing a package of specific renewable and energy efficiency measures, costs, energy & CO₂ savings, finance, installers and planning. Delivered through our partnership initiative renewables4communities
• Woodfuel feasibility studies. Delivered through renewables4communities
• Energy efficiency and renewable energy support services. Delivered through renewables4communities
  
• Carbon emissions monitoring and footprinting
• Awareness raising and training

Also see the service summaries for Climate Change and Renewable Energy.

The benefits: Addressing climate change saves money, builds resilience, reduces environmental impacts, highlights new markets and opportunities and is at the heart of forward thinking business practice and policy.

Case studies:

• Engaging 1million+ customers on energy and climate change
• School gets solar PV electricity
• More case studies at renewables4communities
  
• Oldham uses variety of approaches to get its climate change action plan off the ground