Tesco represents the largest test of the BSI PAS 20501 draft product carbon footprinting method and the Carbon Trust Carbon Reduction Label.

A new fleet of trains built in Derby by the train-makers Bombardier has scored a UK first for environmental performance by using innovative technology to cut energy bills by 20%.

Visit any Marks & Spencer store and you will be hard-pressed to escape evidence of the British retailer’s efforts to tackle climate change.

While world leaders continue to debate environmental issues on a global scale, Woking Borough Council is looking after its own neighbourhood climate change challenges.

Anglian Water, which supplies water to 2.6m households in the east of England, is on track for a 20% reduction in energy costs by 2010 from a 2006 baseline.

In 1990 BT committed itself to developing and applying environmental management principles across its business. Since 1996 it has cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 58%, and aims to increase these savings to 80% by 2016.

Working to improve the environmental impact of its TV programmes, and finding low carbon technologies to use in programme production, Sky has made big changes within its business, reducing Group carbon emissions by 16% over the past four years.