{"id":129562,"date":"2024-04-10T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-mean-business-more-than-half-of-smes-lack-policy-and-financial-support-to-take-climate-action\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T06:10:18","slug":"we-mean-business-more-than-half-of-smes-lack-policy-and-financial-support-to-take-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-mean-business-more-than-half-of-smes-lack-policy-and-financial-support-to-take-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"We Mean Business: More than half of SMEs lack policy and financial support to take climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129562\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nNew survey reveals climate action is climbing the list of priorities for smaller business, but key political and financial barriers are slowing progress. Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) are keen to play a role as &#8220;nimble changemakers&#8221; in the net zero transition, but their efforts to decarbonise are being hampered by a lack of targeted policies and funding support from government, according to new research from the We Mean Business (WMB) coalition of leading corporates.<\/p>\n<p>Published today, the survey from the WMB-led SME Climate Hub found more small businesses are prioritising climate action, with 44 per cent of respondents saying the issue rose up their list of priorities last year and 53 per cent saying it maintained the same level of importance. Moreover, SMEs said they were seeing increased pressure to take climate action from shareholders, investors, and customers.<\/p>\n<p>The study of SMEs across 44 countries and 25 sectors also found that businesses taking climate action saw tangible benefits. For example, 62 per cent of respondents suggested reducing emissions had enhanced their reputation, just over half said it had differentiated them from competitors, and 40 per cent claimed they had achieved brand benefits. Thirty per cent claimed they had won new customers thanks to their decarbonisation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite these positives, 52 per cent of the SMEs polled claimed a lack of policy or government-sponsored incentives and benefits had inhibited climate action, while insufficient funding was similarly flagged as a challenge by more than half of those quizzed. Four-in-five respondents said they had not been offered any financial incentives to reduce their emissions, while 10 per cent claimed they would need funding to start their climate action journey.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, 39 per cent of SMEs said lack of data about current emissions was hampering action on climate change, while a lack of time was seen as a barrier to action by 29 per cent of respondents. A similar percentage also suggested lack of skills and knowledge were impeding their ability to act.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/news\/4195331\/mean-business-half-smes-lack-policy-financial-support-climate-action\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/news\/4195331\/mean-business-half-smes-lack-policy-financial-support-climate-action\">Business Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/we-mean-business-more-than-half-of-smes-lack-policy-and-financial-support-to-take-climate-action\/\">We Mean Business: More than half of SMEs lack policy and financial support to take climate action<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9758,1086,14108,7830,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-129562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-action","tag-financial","tag-lack-policy","tag-smes","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}