Shining Light on Green Shoots of Opportunity

We were really pleased to take part in the spotlight series on a topic that is extremely important to us. Highlighting the need for businesses to focus on sustainability in their business planning.

We picked up the Chamber’s ‘Net Zero Business of the Year’ at the Scottish Borders Business Excellence Awards for 2024 and our Chief Executive, Nile Istephan, explains in a ‘Spotlight’ video why the net zero agenda has become so central to our strategy. We have appointed Liam McGuckin as our full-time ‘Sustainability Coordinator’, look at our business and explore energy waste, but also to find routes to innovative ways to cut costs and secure new funding.

“It’s extremely important for us,” says Liam. “Increasingly, we’re seeing banks and private investors looking at our environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices. In order to prove to lenders that we are an organisation of merit we need to be able to showcase this and quantify our impact.”

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