Charli Adamson

Charli joined Ecologi in October 2021 as an Account Executive, working with businesses to take meaningful climate action and hit their sustainability goals. Prior to joining Ecologi, Charli co-founded the Million Tree Pledge, a collective of businesses and ambitious individuals taking radical action in response to the climate emergency by pledging to plant one million trees each.

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Strength in numbers: how small businesses can help fight climate change

While individual multinational corporations may have a disproportionately negative impact on the environment, the cumulative effect of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) also presents both a huge problem and an excellent opportunity for climate action. According to a recent study by the British Business Bank, SMEs are responsible for nearly 50% of all business-driven greenhouse gas emissions in the UK largely, in part, due to the use of inefficient internal and supply chain processes. Despite this, 76% of SMEs are yet to implement a decarbonisation strategy and according to another recent study by O2 and the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), only one in ten are even measuring their carbon emissions.