Certification
The Carbon Smart Certification scheme supports organisations who want to improve their sustainability performance and reducing their environmental impacts. Working closely with organisations, we ensure you can achieve best practice environmental achievements through our Certification scheme, complimenting and simplifying the needs of ISO 14001 and ISO 50001.
Who is it for?
Becoming Carbon Smart Certified is available to all organisations, but mostly suits small to medium businesses who can’t afford the costs of an ISO 50001 or ISO 14001, yet want to benefit from integrating sustainability into their business, and subsequently, advertise it to customers and other stakeholders. Over 1,000 organisations are Carbon Smart Certified and received their Gold, Silver or Bronze certification – a reflection of their company’s environmental achievements.
Why do you need it?
Embracing sustainability in your organisation provides an excellent opportunity for improving your business’ performance, enhancing your reputation and demonstrating environmental responsibility to your stakeholders.
Why Carbon Smart?
Carbon Smart is one of the leading certification bodies in the UK and has certified over 1,000 organisations to date who achieved third party recognition of their sustainability commitment. Examples of organisations that have challenged themselves to make positive changes and achieve the recognition they deserve are listed below. And if that’s not convincing enough, read what our clients say about us on the right side.
Achieving a Carbon Smart Certificate is an easy and effective process – download the PDF overview to learn more.
What our clients say…
“We did not have the resources to become ISO 14001 certified, so we went with Carbon Smart. Our clients were absolutely wowed by the Carbon Smart Programme and as a result retained us as an approved supplier.”
Tony Baker, Managing Director, The Roman Group
“Carbon Smart gave us clear direction, we’ve made cost savings, gained promotional opportunities and got our staff involved.”
Franck Nicolas, Office for Public Management
“Working with Carbon Smart has given us simple and practical tools and helped us to build a behavioural change programme that inspired our team to get more involved and take ownership.”
Claire Sheldrake, HR Director, CNET Networks
“The Carbon Smart report is an indispensable tool for calculating environmental efficiency. The report has helped us be certain of how much progress we have made, year-on-year, in reducing Swiftflow’s carbon footprint and we are delighted to be continuing our relationship with Carbon Smart.”
Rob Wicker, Operations Director, Swiftflow