Clean Growth Sustainability Audit Guide

Read time : 22 mins Added: 08/11/2021

 

Identify opportunities to reduce your emissions and make your business more sustainable with our updated Clean Growth Sustainability Audit Guide.

With the UK aiming to be net zero by 2050, and reduce emissions by 78% by 2035, it’s important that businesses of all sizes take steps to reduce both their direct and indirect emissions. 

But it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what sustainability changes are right for your business. This is where a sustainability audit comes in.

What does the Clean Growth Sustainability Audit Guide include?

Examining the various areas of your business allows you to more accurately assess them against sustainable best practice and identify what opportunities are available and what changes – big or small – you’d like to implement.  

Our downloadable guide can help you get started. Inside you’ll find:

  • The benefits of conducting a sustainability audit
  • Step-by-step instructions for conducting your own sustainability audit, covering energy, waste and recycling, transport, water and more
  • An easy-to-use checklist to help you record your findings and identify areas to prioritise
  • Ideas for sustainable improvement projects
  • Information on our Clean Growth Financing Initiative which can help you access discounted lending to fund sustainable business changes.

If you’ve used the guide before you’ll find new information and audit sections covering Scope 3 emissions, sustainability skills and more.

How the audit guide works:

Download a copy of the guide and save to your computer – this will allow you to complete the checklist and automatically generate your sustainability ratings.

Make sure you open the guide in Adobe Acrobat Reader – the checklist functionality may not work on other PDF readers i.e Apple Preview.

Get started on your Clean Growth Sustainability Audit (PDF, 3 MB)

Sustainability audit

Work your way through the questions to receive your sustainability audit rating.

Download audit (PDF, 3MB) PDF, opens in a new window

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Find out how

Sustainability hub

Supporting UK businesses transition to low-carbon, sustainable business models and operations to pursue new clean growth opportunities.

Visit the sustainability hub

Clean Growth Financing Initiative

Access discounted lending for green purposes from small improvements to large-scale infrastructure.

Access funding

Sustainability Voices

Insights from experts and customers to understand how businesses can achieve positive transformational change on their journey to net zero.

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