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Firms set to receive energy-efficiency guidance
UK businesses are set to receive guidance on how to reduce their carbon emission as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment initiative.
Step-by-step guidance will be offered to firms outlining what needs to be done to qualify for the scheme, such as making energy-efficiency building improvements.
Businesses will be expected to make the appropriate preparations in time for the introduction of the scheme in April 2010 - leaving them just over a year to contact tradesmen and handymen to carry out the appropriate work.
Energy and climate change minister Joan Ruddock believes that the initiative could save businesses up to £1 billion by 2020.
She said: "Cutting back on energy use and becoming more energy efficient makes economic sense for firms at the best of times.
"The Carbon Reduction Commitment is part of a package of measures in the ground breaking Climate Change Act which will help mobilise 5,000 organisations to save over four million tons of CO2 a year."
Improving business energy efficiency is on of the key areas outlined in the government's Low Carbon Industrial Strategy, unveiled by ministers on March 6th.
