NatWest has created a new Carbon Planner tool which designed to help cut transport businesses energy costs, whilst reducing their carbon footprint. 

The NatWest Carbon Planner provides personalised actions based on user-data, enabling users to make better informed decisions when looking to reduce their carbon emissions. Businesses can benefit from vital information such as the potential savings of adopting sustainability measures and the time it will take to earn a return on investment. Around two thirds of businesses that sign up to the NatWest Carbon Planner are making use of the tool to create a transition action plan. 

Solange Chamberlain, Chief Operating Officer, Commercial & Institutional, NatWest Group said; “Transport businesses of all sizes are coming under increasing pressure due to rising energy costs. Our Carbon Planner tool is designed to help navigate these challenging conditions by providing a clear case for investment in sustainability through equipping businesses with greater insight into areas of high-energy and high-carbon consumption.

“The tool can help businesses invest to save by switching from volatile commodities to renewable sources with predictable prices, and support transport businesses in taking actions to measure, evaluate and act to reduce their climate impact.

“We must support UK businesses through the current challenges without falling behind on taking the sustainability measures that will ultimately lead us towards a cleaner, greener future.”

The Carbon Planner takes a business through four steps:

• Inform – lets businesses know their current emission hotspots and suggests alternatives
• Diagnose – helps businesses understand what is best for their business
• Plan – supports businesses in developing a plan of actions
• Deliver – signposting potential options available to help them to take actions that can help their business and have the potential to reduce impact on the environment