Businesses to get green info at conference

Published Date: 10 March 2009

BUSINESSES will be given the green treatment at a carbon conference being held in the Capital.
More than 150 delegates will attend the inaugural Carbon Accounting Conference, to be held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University.Tomorrow's event aims to discuss the social, political and environmental issues which lead businesses to conduct a carbon audit of their own operations.Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, will be one of those attending, and a range of international experts will address the conference on the important issues of carbon accounting boundaries, processes and reporting, highlighting the issue of corporate social responsibility.The Scottish Government Climate Change Team will be on hand to explain their policy drivers and aspirations for the future of carbon auditing in Scotland.Event organiser Professor Sue Roaf said: "The need to reduce carbon emissions is driving the Scottish and UK governments, and most leading businesses, to now require all their projects to have carbon accounts. "This is a unique opportunity to learn about why and how carbon accounting is done across the different sectors."