Useful links and resources

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Useful organisations and sites

Trucost: a world leading environmental data owner and research company which provides the world's most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts. This forms the foundation of the comparative analysis in Sustain4.

The Carbon Trust: provide specialist support to business and the public sector to help cut carbon emissions, save energy and commercialise low carbon technologies.

Improvement & Development Agency: UK local government is pioneering much of the best practice in environmental sustainability and climate change. These pages look at why local government needs to act and what the sector is already doing and includes an extensive 'links and resources' section.

NHS Sustainable Development Unit: provide leadership, support and policy input to ensure the NHS in England is the leading public sector organisation in promoting sustainable development and mitigating climate change.

DEFRA Sustainable Development: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' sustainable development site provides information on what Sustainable Development is, what the UK government's SD priorities are, what it's doing to achieve them and what individuals & communities can do to help.

Accounting for Sustainability: The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project.  Bringing organisations together to develop practical tools to enable environmental and social performance to be better connected with strategy and financial performance, and thereby embedded into day-to-day operations and decision making.

BusinessGreen.com: a business website offering companies the latest news and best-practice advice on how to become more environmentally responsible, while still growing the bottom line.

HEFCE - Sustainable Development in HE Guide: An online sustainability resource toolkit which aims to help staff in Higher Education and work-based learning understand sustainability and how it relates to their organisations.

Futerra: Futerra Sustainability Communications is an award-winning international agency that focusses solely on corporate responsibility and sustainability.

The Prince's Mayday Network: UNIT4 have joined the Mayday Network - a collaboration of businesses working together towards a lower carbon and more sustainable future.

Govspark: Govspark takes the energy consumption figures from each individual Government Department and compares usage to monitor the Government's pledge to reduce its carbon footprint.  Read Rory Cellan-Jones' thoughts on this initiative on his dot.Rory blog on the BBC News website.

Background documents

Carbon footprinting - the next step to reducing your emissions (document from The Carbon Trust). a new guide designed to provide businesses with clear instructions on how to calculate the carbon footprint of their operations and products.