Our achievements 

Since our launch in 2001 the Carbon Trust has:

  • Helped our customers to save around 23MtCO2
  • Helped our customers to make around £1.4 billion of direct cost savings
  • Catalysed around £1 billion of third party investment into the development and deployment of low carbon technologies, markets, products and services
  • Supported the development of over 250 new low carbon technology projects and companies in the UK
  • Certified the carbon footprints of over 5,000 products
  • Certified over 200 companies to the Carbon Trust Standard
  • Provided insight to inform policy decisions, leading to:
    • the new CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme for large organisations
    • improved support for emerging technologies under the revised Renewables Obligations
    • a deeper understanding of the competitiveness impacts of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme  
 
 

In  2008/09 alone we:

  • Provided direct support to around 30,000 customers
  • Saved our customers up to 2MtCO2 and up to £227 million in direct cost savings
  • Catalysed around £300 million of private investment into carbon reduction and low carbon technology projects
  • Provided £22.3 million of interest-free Energy Efficiency Loans to businesses
  • Launched three major projects to accelerate the deployment of low carbon energy technologies including a £30 million project with the offshore wind industry aiming to cut the cost of offshore wind energy by 10%
  • Defined a new approach for the UK to commercialise low carbon technologies, gaining widespread support to capture the economic opportunities highlighted by our Focus for Success report 
  • Delivered carbon savings cost effectively at £4-6 per tonne of carbon saved
 
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