VTUK has implemented a range of initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint, including reducing paper usage, printing and other carbon deficit elements via our software solutions, in addition to taking up the Act on CO2 initiative.

Climate change is a growing concern, and the UK has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 34 per cent over the next ten years. The UK’s housing industry has a vital role to play in making this happen, with households in the UK accounting for a whopping 28 per cent of the national CO2 emissions total, an average of six tonnes of CO2 emissions per household per year.

The property industry, on both the construction and maintenance sides, has already set goals and launched schemes to reduce CO2 emissions, ranging from the Department for Communities and Local Government’s target to build 240,000 carbon neutral homes a year by 2016 to the recent introduction of the boiler scrappage scheme earlier this month, aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from homes by around 140,000 tonnes.

Peter Grant, Managing Director of VTUK, said, “We are proud to be leading the way in the property industry, by becoming a carbon neutral business. The home is responsible for the largest element of our individual carbon footprint and our clients manage that asset in over 400,000 cases in the UK alone. We firmly believe that everyone should be doing what they can to reduce their carbon footprint.

“Whether it’s driven by concern for the future of the planet, or simply wanting to reduce the extreme costs that will soon be levied via council tax and fuel bills, we want to assist our clients to act now, in helping their landlords and tenants to plan and change in 2010. Leading by example only adds to steps we have already taken to reduce paper usage, printing and other carbon deficit elements via our software solutions and we will soon be taking a more proactive stance for our clients via the provision of green solutions for all properties managed by Gemini.”