Big corporations urging SMEs to measure their sustainability

Sustainability reports of large organisations will increasingly feature carbon footprint appraisals from their suppliers

Paul Murphy, of Climeaction, a new sustainability consultancy withing Leading Edge Group. Based in Cobh, Co Cork, Leading Edge Group offers consultancy, training and business performance improvement programmes to organisations in Ireland, UK, Canada and Australia.

Small firms are increasingly seeking to measure their sustainability performance and are feeding their findings into the climate action reports of the large corporations to whom they supply goods and services.

As part of Ireland's drive to meet the 2030 environmental targets in the Paris Agreement on climate action, the State is urging SMEs to avail of the new GreenStart and GreenPlus vouchers, hosted by Enterprise Ireland, IDA, SEAI, LEO and Údarás na Gaeltachta.