Using the Standard

Achievement of the Carbon Trust Standard not only helps you demonstrate that you are effectively managing and reducing your carbon footprint, it can provide wider commercial benefits:
  • Independent confirmation of your environmental credentials to customers
  • Assist with meeting environmental procurement requirements
  • Improve investors’ view of your organisation’s future
  • Retain and attract an increasingly environmentally-aware workforce
  • Reduce the cost of compliance under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
Stakeholders, customers and investors all expect businesses to take responsibility for their impact on climate change. An increasingly environmentally aware audience means that individual ‘claims’ need to be substantiated or demonstrated to be taken seriously. Our research findings show what business leaders and consumers expect from a certification scheme. Read more…

Carbon Reduction Commitment

The CRC is the new cap and trade legislation that will affect around 5000 organisations in the UK.

Find out what the criteria are for inclusion, key dates and how the Carbon Trust Standard can help to reduce the cost of compliance.

Using the logo

Organisations that achieve the Carbon Trust Standard can use the logo to provide independent confirmation of their environmental credentials.

This section includes suggestions of where the logo can be used, access to our logo usage guidelines and how to request the logo.