Carbon Trust was developed and launched during the first Blair Administration as part of the development of the Climate Change Levy, a tax on business energy use that still operates today.
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13 Facts About Carbon Trust
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The Carbon Trust was originally funded by around £50m of tax revenue generated from the Levy to help businesses reduce energy costs and therefore offset the additional cost of paying the CCL.
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The establishment of the Carbon Trust was announced in the 2000 White Paper "Climate Change - the UK Programme" [1].
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Carbon Trust was conceived as a business-led publicly funded organisation at arms length from government.
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Carbon Trust reconfigured the EEBPP to improve its focus and services to business under a new branding called "Action Energy".
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Carbon Trust initiated work on new and emerging low carbon technologies using a range of programmes and measures including traditional research, development and demonstration support to supporting early stage companies developing new technologies and practices.
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Carbon Trust looks at current and future sustainability challenges and works with business and organisations to develop sustainable strategies to deliver savings.
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Carbon Trust provides voluntary carbon certification services and carbon labelling schemes – it verifies organisation and product carbon footprint data and provides marks of quality to organisations to demonstrate standards have been met.
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Carbon Trust provides analysis on sustainability issues to help businesses, investors and policy makers with their roles in reducing carbon and saving energy.
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In June 2008 the Carbon Trust introduced the Carbon Trust Carbon Standard to address what it describes as business greenwash.
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In February 2013 the Carbon Trust introduced the Carbon Trust Water Standard to recognise those companies reducing their water use year on year.
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In 2015 the Carbon Trust launched the Carbon Trust Supply Chain Standard to look at carbon footprints across the supply chain.
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Carbon Trust helps companies to measure the carbon emissions associated with their products and provides a label for these products carbon footprint.
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