Net Zero Census Report released
Today Broadway Initiative and Planet Mark are unveiling the Net Zero Census report.
The Census is delivered by the UK Business Climate Hub coalition, managed by Broadway, in partnership with Planet Mark, and analyses the experiences and opinions of over 2000 UK businesses grappling with the path to net zero.
The transition to clean power and a zero-carbon future is both an environmental imperative and an economic opportunity. SMEs are well- placed to capture the economic benefits of the low carbon revolution, through developing solutions needed across the economy and accessing new markets globally. But we need to make decarbonisation action straightforward and accessible.
Broadway has worked with the whole business and finance community, including through leading trade associations and with the Government, to create the UK Business Climate Hub, the UK’s net zero portal for authoritative, free to access business advice on energy efficiency and decarbonisation. UK Business Climate Hub is at the heart of the joined-up support framework for SMEs that we and our partners want to create.
To make these frameworks effective we need to understand the SME perspective, and how it is evolving. That’s why Broadway partnered with Planet Mark to create the Net Zero Census. The Census is the first research on SME net zero engagement to be done at such a large scale, with such a wide range of partners.
We plan to build on the Census capability to monitor trends annually. This first set of results is already shedding new light on issues such as net zero supply chain requirements, and my thanks go to the Planet Mark team for their hard work in delivering the survey.
You can find the headline figures here or head over to UK Business Climate Hub now to download your copy of the report and register for the Net Zero Census webinar, where we will be unpacking what we have learned about the state of SME decarbonisation from over 2000 business responses.
