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Articles and press releases from the edenseven team — covering the sustainability topics that matter to your business.
14 April 2026
Gloucestershire County Council selects edenseven to accelerate its pathway to Net-Zero using cero.earth
Gloucestershire County Council has selected edenseven’s cutting-edge sustainability management platform, cero.earth, to strengthen emissions reporting, improve collaboration with its suppliers, inf...
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23 March 2026
Energy, Risk and Competitiveness: The Real Sustainability Conversation
Why the transition to a lower carbon economy is fundamentally about operational resilience.
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20 November 2025
Press Release - FTSE 250 Climate Report: The Credibility Gap
UK Corporate Accountability Exposed as Climate Commitments Fail to Deliver
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13 November 2025
The Hidden Shock: Why UK Businesses Face a Surge in Non-Commodity Electricity Costs and What to Do Now
Even as wholesale electricity prices stabilise, a new wave of cost pressure is hitting UK businesses, and it is not coming from the energy market itself.
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6 November 2025
Reconnecting Business & Nature
Nature means something different to everyone. For some, it is a dog-walk through the park; for others, it is hiking misty mountains in Scotland, swimming in turquoise waters, or exploring tropical ...
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4 September 2025
Chasing Shadows: Why Short-Termism is Undermining Long-Term Business Growth
Scene Setting: A world on fire, a business community looking away
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27 June 2025
ESG as a Bolt-On vs Strategic Integration
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have moved from niche considerations to critical drivers of long-term value, investor confidence,...
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10 June 2025
Staying Afloat: UK Leisure Centres and Sustainable Operations
As energy prices climb, staff costs rise, and local authority budgets tighten, leisure centres across the UK are navigating choppy waters. Nowhere is this pressure felt more acutely than in facilit...
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27 May 2025
Avoid Greenwashing: Earn Trust, Lower Risk, Cut Cost, Create Impact
Managing Partner, Pete Nisbet, explains more:
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10 March 2025
Execute Your ESOS Action Plan Now & Unlock Immediate Savings
On March 5th, 2025, Sustainability and FM Leaders captured the attention of Business Directors. By signing their Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) Action Plans, they collectively endorsed a ...
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28 February 2025
edenseven & Paythru: Strengthening ESG Leadership in EV Payments
We’re delighted to continue collaborating with Paythru, supporting their commitment to sustainability through comprehensive ESG solutions. Our partnership includes edenseven's in-depth measurement ...
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18 February 2025
The Financial Cost of Scope 3
Scope 3 emissions cover everything outside your direct operations - the carbon footprint of your supply chain, purchased goods, logistics, business travel, and more. The higher your Scope 3 emissio...
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14 February 2025
UK CBAM: What It Means for Your Business
In 2023, the UK Government announced plans to introduce a carbon border tax from 2027, known as the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (UK CBAM). This policy aims to prevent carbon leakage (the ...
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12 February 2025
Climate Change - Is Offsetting the Answer?
Over the last few decades, carbon offsetting has become a go-to strategy for businesses looking to demonstrate sustainability commitments and enhance their external credibility. Offsetting takes ma...
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5 February 2025
The Role of Climate Tech in Decarbonising the Public Sector
In their 2020 report, the Climate Change Committee emphasised the importance of local authorities in national decarbonisation efforts and the UK’s journey to net zero. Quoting the capacity to impac...
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13 December 2024
Mawdsleys Signs Long-Term Agreement to Use cero.earth
Mawdsleys is the UK’s largest independent pharmaceutical distributor. Established nearly 200 years ago, they have a fast-growing international network supplying medicines to meet patient needs and ...
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29 November 2024
Charting a Course to Net Zero: Thames Freeport's Path to Sustainable Operations
Thames Freeport is a unique initiative designed to stimulate trade and innovation and transform the lives of people in its region, leveraging global connectivity to over 130 ports in 65 countries. ...
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4 November 2024
Press Release - Are Businesses Ignoring the Climate Crisis?
New Report Highlights “Alarmingly Poor“ Response of FTSE250 Companies to Climate Crisis
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20 June 2024
Navigating the Future of Commercial Property: Efficiency, Sustainability and Compliance
As of 2023, commercial properties in England and Wales are required to meet a minimum EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) rating of 'E.' By 2027, this will rise to 'C,' and by 2030, it will furthe...
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6 June 2024
Nature Based Solutions for People, Planet and Profit - Making ESG part of your competitive advantage
Nature-Based Solutions can deliver multiple benefits in single locations, delivering greater impact for people, planet, and profit, and moving ESG from being just another cost to a competitive adva...
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26 March 2024
edenseven win £2.75m Innovate UK Funding, with Consortium, to Boost Local Authority’s Ability to Achieve Net Zero
26/03/2024 – edenseven is excited to announce that they have, within a consortium led by Peterborough City Council (PCC), been awarded a £2.75m grant by Innovate UK, part of a total £3.2m project, ...
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16 February 2024
Reducing your carbon footprint - Buildings
Buildings account for roughly 17% of the UK's carbon emissions and 59% of its electricity consumption. Alarmingly, both carbon emissions and energy consumption in buildings are on the rise, driven ...
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6 February 2024
IFRS S1 & S2 - What is it and who needs to comply?
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) announced two international sustainability standards in 2023, IFRS S1 & S2. IFRS S1 is for sustainability-related financial disclosures and IF...
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5 February 2024
CSRD - What is it and who needs to comply?
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is an EU directive announced in 2021 to improve corporate transparency, data accuracy, and comparability of their sustainability performance ...
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2 February 2024
TCFD - What is it and who needs to comply?
The Task- Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), to increase the number of company’s reporting climate information and imp...
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1 February 2024
The Future of Climate Reporting for UK Businesses
In October 2023, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was officially disbanded after successfully establishing a widely adopted climate reporting framework. With its missi...
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31 January 2024
Get ahead of Climate Regulation with cero.earth
As global climate regulations come into effect, businesses are facing a growing demand to disclose
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25 January 2024
Iceland Foods sign agreement to use edenseven's carbon reporting & management platform cero.earth to accelerate their decarbonisation
25/01/2024 - Iceland Foods Limited (Iceland), one of the UK's best known supermarket chains with almost 1000 locations, has signed a long-term agreement with edenseven to report and monitor all cla...
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8 January 2024
Is 2024 the end of the road for Electric Vehicles?
Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) car sales declined by 34% in December 2023, and their overall market share contracted throughout the year. BEV van sales remained flat, holding steady at under 6% mar...
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18 December 2023
Scope 3 Emissions: Making Sustainability Your Business
The Paris Agreement calls for a strong global effort to reach Net Zero by 2050. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global emissions must peak before 2025 and roughly...
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8 December 2023
edenseven launch integrated end-to-end fleet electrification solution
(08/12/2023) - edenseven today launched a first of its kind integrated fleet electrification solution called “Electric Fleet Solutions, driven by edenseven“. Fleets have long struggled with the tra...
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10 November 2023
Demystifying Carbon Footprint Calculations: What You Need to Know
Calculating your carbon footprint might seem straightforward at first, but in reality, it involves multiple layers of data and emissions factors. Our data and modelling expert, Tony Davey, explains...
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30 October 2023
The Business Case for Renewable Energy: Stability, Savings, and Security
By now, it’s widely accepted that transitioning away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable energy sources is essential—not just for meeting our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, ...
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9 October 2023
How to Prepare your Business for Policy Change
The recent announcements by the UK Government to change key dates within the overall net zero target has swiftly brought policy and progress back into focus.
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16 August 2023
We’re giving away 50 free copies of Simon King’s new book, Sustainability – Profit, People and Planet
Simon King is a partner at edenseven and an expert in sustainability, ESG and procurement having worked as a Global Chief Procurement Officer and Director of Sustainability for companies including ...
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2 August 2023
Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: The Peterborough Project takes on Non-technical Barriers
We are proud to be part of a consortium working with Peterborough City Council to accelerate the city’s pathway to net zero.
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21 March 2023
Paythru teams up with edenseven to reduce environmental impact
edenseven is excited to announce a new collaboration with Paythru, a leading provider of payment solutions for the EV sector. Paythru have approached edenseven to enlist their subject matter expert...
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13 March 2023
Targets & Progress: A Deep-Dive into Why the Public Sector Needs Them
One of the key points of inspiration for the development of cero.earth, edenseven’s in-house carbon accounting platform, was a visible lack of structure or set of targets keeping the public sector ...
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6 December 2022
6 Steps to Secure a Long-term Renewables Contract
Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs) have in recent years become an important way to reduce a business’s exposure to the hugely volatile energy markets and have a positive impact on overall ...
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4 October 2022
Mapping interactions and data to deliver a net-zero housing strategy
Nearly two-thirds of councils in England aim to be carbon neutral by 2030 to support the government's zero carbon ambitions for 2050.
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2 September 2022
Our 5-point plan to tackle energy costs
UK businesses are about to feel the impact of unprecedented energy price rises. At a national level this equates to a £230bn annual increase. This is split into:
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25 August 2022
What does a tonne of CO2 look like?
There is a useful way to visualise one tonne of CO2—using graphics like those from Carbon Visuals. One unit is equal to one cube of 8m by 8m filled with CO2, at 15 degrees Celsius and sea level pre...
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1 August 2022
The true cost of energy inflation
We took a random selection of FTSE 250 companies, one from each page of the LSE listing on the internet. Only 8 out of the 13 published SECR (Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting) data. Of those 8...
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5 July 2022
Why fuel prices are not 'pump fiction'
There are a range of issues with the premise that fuel price challenges stem from unfair taxation and pump price profiteering. I’ll just call out the main two:
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24 May 2022
Supply chain engagement, as part of your sustainability strategy, will make your business stronger
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol divides emissions in three categories:
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15 September 2021
Sustainability will be a ’Licence to Operate’ sooner than expected
There is a point to made about the introduction of the new ruling. It isn’t about the size of the award it is focussed on (£5m per annum and above, isn’t a small amount after all) or about the veri...
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7 September 2021
Taking control of the Bull - How to manage commodity exposure in highly volatile markets
A common misconception is that at times of historical peaks and troughs there is never going to be someone buying and someone selling.
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6 May 2021
The first step towards net zero is often the hardest – we offer some advice to business leaders starting their journey
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.“
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11 March 2021
Digital transformation and sustainability are two global trends that are converging
Sustainability was defined nearly 25 years ago by the United Nations as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.“ Driven by ...
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3 March 2021
Carrot or Stick? How carbon price pressure will be a key component to tackling the climate crisis
What forces need to combine to lay the foundations of a significant global reduction of carbon emissions? To drive significant change, it's not just one way, it's a number of ways. Let's call it us...
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16 February 2021
Don't bet against the odds when it comes to climate change
So, what is my point? Well, you can of course have pure luck, like winning the lottery (the UK Lottery jackpot is an estimated 1 in 45m chance), but luck will more surely come to your aid in busine...
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8 February 2021
The time is now (launching edenseven)
We are excited to launch edenseven as it realises our belief that sustainable transformation starts with data-led decisions.
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