SWPA Collaboration with Accreditation Scheme: Introducing Green Accord
The Green Accord is a proven accreditation that drives sustainability and addresses the expanding environmental responsibilities facing businesses. Green Accord demonstrates best practice and promotes the reduction of environmental impact throughout the whole supply chain, by necessitating practical actions and the instigation of alternative working practices by suppliers.
Green Accord was launched in 2007 and is proud to be an important national symbol of low-carbon business structures. The clear, easy to implement actions were recently updated to help businesses to meet their fast-changing environmental requirements and reduce their environmental impact. Green Accord is a resourceful route to sustainability, efficiency, and net zero. Three approaches to business which are emphatically important to us all in this current day, and to lessen the impact on the environment surrounding us, in a bid for a cleaner and brighter future.
The implementation of the Green Accord standard endorses a business and organisational culture that embodies not only improved performance but embeds the structure and processes that will help achieve and maintain sustainability and net zero goals. The Green Accord accreditation will encourage the upskilling of SMEs in the South West region, helping to mitigate the contractor skill shortage and improve the sustainability and longevity of SMEs.
Green Accord is passionate about helping businesses nationally, to reduce their carbon emissions, and in turn reduce their costs and impact on the environment. Green Accord champions providing solutions to improve long-term sustainability, work towards decarbonisation, and encourage low impact and high performance supply chains.
Green Accord has been identified as one of the recommended accreditation schemes on the UK Business Climate Hub, a coalition with the government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the SME Climate Hub and the UK’s main business organisations, energy networks and professional bodies. The hub provides net zero advice for small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.
SWPA is proud to endorse environmental initiatives, like Green Accord, which make a very real contribution to supplier sustainability and longevity, through lessening the impact to the environment and working towards a net zero future.
The Green Accord accreditation highlights a business’ credentials and distinguishes it from others. There are three levels to the accreditation: bronze, silver, and gold. These levels acknowledge a businesses’ dedication to the environment and celebrate their pledge to achieve a more sustainable future. The accreditation is valid for two years and it is suitable for all sizes and types of organisations. For more information, please visit the Green Accord website.
