Just one in ten businesses globally are fully monitoring their overall carbon impact

* One in four European firms have a director in charge of environmental issues
* European firms are looking for a regulatory lead from governments

Businesses are not keeping up with the growing carbon awareness of a general public disturbed by predictions of climate change, but more firms are starting to focus on the issue, according to an independent report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. A Change in the Climate Is business going green?, commissioned by UK Trade & Investment, reviews the corporate response to climate change.

Nearly one-third of companies surveyed (32%) do not monitor direct carbon emissions or indirect effects such as supply chain activities and have no plans to start doing so, according to the 634 executives globally who responded (including 227 from Europe). About one in five companies (18%) simply measure energy efficiency, while a further 25% monitor some or all emissions across parts of the business. Just one in ten companies comprehensively monitors its entire carbon impact across the whole business, though in Europe the figure rises to 12%.

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