Businesses urged to embrace sustainability

21-02-2008

Firms should look to embed sustainability into their corporate culture, according to the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales (ICAEW).

The group has said that energy planning should be a top priority for businesses, with government schemes encouraged to make it easier for firms to adopt a sustainable office design.

In a statement to the ICAEW conference recently, James Murdoch, chief executive of BSkyB, said: "What business wants from government on climate change is not micro-management but the creation of a degree of long-term certainty over energy planning."

He added that the government needed to encourage businesses that display "good behaviour" in their approach to sustainability.

Mr Murdoch said that incentives should aim to make it easier for businesses to do better.

Alongside office design improvements, firms are being encouraged to adopt a green IT energy policy as one way of reducing business carbon emissions.

The European Sustainable IT Forum promotes a responsible approach to IT that can reduce energy consumption and save companies money.

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