{"id":37497,"date":"2023-09-05T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37497"},"modified":"2023-09-04T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T17:35:26","slug":"the-battle-smes-face-in-reducing-their-emissions-and-proving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37497","title":{"rendered":"The battle SMEs face in reducing their emissions &#8211; and proving it"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31148 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Climate_Change_Open_Gov_Licence_V3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"128\" \/>What is holding back small firms that want to reduce their carbon emissions? Tom Lowe reports for the Building the Future Commission.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Building<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a contractor\u2019s profit margins in the black can be a careful balancing act\u2026. Juggling the pressures of a sustained period of material inflation and economic uncertainty while walking this tightrope is a step up in difficulty. Now try doing this while transforming your builder into a net zero business.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 many SMEs are making slow progress in lowering their carbon emissions when there has been so much else to manage in recent years. Barely a third of small construction firms have a plan to reduce their impact on the environment, according to a 2021 report by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Only 15% have made any changes to their business, the lowest percentage of the UK\u2019s seven largest sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/building-the-future-commission\/the-battle-smes-face-in-reducing-their-emissions-and-proving-it\/5124573.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is holding back small firms that want to reduce their carbon emissions? Tom Lowe reports for the Building the Future Commission. image for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37498,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497\/revisions\/37498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}