Government Resources: The Sustainability Edition

Sustainability and Energy Support

Energy Management

BEIS has partnered with BSI to offer a free ISO 50005 standard to all UK businesses who make the SME Climate Commitment before the end of 2021. Please see here and feel free to circulate this among your networks and/or memberships.

Climate reporting

The SME Climate Hub have launched a suite of free tools & resources to help businesses to measure, reduce and report on emissions after making the SME Climate Commitment. These include a carbon calculator, Climate Fit education course, and a standard reporting framework to guide annual disclosure of progress. You can find more on these in this guide.

Energy Efficiency for Business

BEIS has updated the Energy Technology list here, and is one of the leading sources of independent and trustworthy energy efficiency advice available to business

Green funding

Find funding to help your business become greener: Almost £5 billion of funding is available to help UK businesses become greener as part of the government’s commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050. This page is updated from time to time.

Business Support

UK-EU Goods movement:

 Customs, VAT and Excise UK transition legislation from 1 January 2021: List of sensitive goods when declaring to inward or outward processing has been added

 Community, Common Transit and TIR newsletters: Information about euro exchange rates from 1 January 2022 Newsletter 15 – December 2021 has been added.

UK Common Frameworks: Added The European Union (Withdrawal) Act and Common Frameworks: 26 June to 25 September 2021.

Customs, VAT and Excise UK transition legislation from 1 January 2021: Links to The Customs and Value Added Tax (Managed Transition Procedure) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 and The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Modification) Regulations 2021 have been added.

UK trade agreements with non-EU countries: Updated link for Norway to go to UK-Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein free trade agreement collection page.

 The UK sanctions list: Two listings removed from the Iraq regime and three minor amendments under the Yemen regime.