The Carbon Trust
Independent Experts with a mission to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy
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| Not for Dividend Private Company Limited by Guarantee | |
| Industry | Carbon management and reduction |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Tom Delay (CEO) James Smith (chairman) Michael Rea (COO) |
| Website | www.carbontrust.com |
The Carbon Trust is a not-for-dividend company that helps organisations and companies reduce their carbon emissions and become more resource efficient. Its stated mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low carbon economy. It reinvests surpluses from its group commercial activities into its mission.
The Carbon Trust helps companies and organisations reduce carbon emissions and increase resource efficiency through providing specialist help, support and advice. As of December 2014 the Carbon Trust had saved its customers £5.5bn in costs and 60MtCO2. It operates globally and has offices in U.K., China, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil and United States. It is also active in many other countries including South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Namibia, Peru, Chile and Panama.
The Carbon Trust looks at current and future sustainability challenges and works with business and organisations to develop sustainable strategies to deliver savings.
The 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.
From February 2013 the Carbon Trust introduced the water standard to go alongside its carbon standard. In November 2013 it announced the launch of the world's first international standard for organisational waste reduction. In 2015 it launched the Carbon Trust Supply Chain Standard to look at carbon footprints across the supply chain.
The Carbon Trust works with governments, innovators and corporates with the aim of accelerating the commercialisation of low carbon technologies, and leads projects to deliver commercial partnerships and develop low carbon technologies. It is particularly active in the areas of offshore wind, marine energy, fuel cell development and industrial energy efficiency. One such project is the Offshore Wind Accelerator, which is aimed at reducing the cost of wind power through projects focused in the North Sea. The Offshore Wind Accelerator is a partnership between industry and governments.
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