In this episode we discus what carbon accounting is, how businesses can start their net zero journey and overcome the challenges they might face along the way.

In the first part of this episode we talk to Lara Longhurst who is the Chief Operations Officer at Hippo Digital. Lara shares with us their journey towards achieving net zero and talks about the support they have received from Coventry University trough their Carbon Accounting Programme.

In the second part of this episode we talk to Prof. Carl Perrin Director of the Centre for Clean Growth and Future Mobility and Dr Lorena Caires Moreira Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME).

Prof. Perrin and Dr Moreira explain what Carbon Accounting is and how businesses can take advantage of the programme they offer.

Guests:

• Lara Longhurst, Chief Operations Officer at Hippo Digital
• Prof. Carl Perrin Director of the Centre for Clean Growth and Future Mobility
• Dr Lorena Caires Moreira Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering

Host and Producer: Maria Covlea

Useful links:

• Hippo digital
• Green Business Programme (Coventry City Council)
• The journey to Net Zero for SMEs
• Steps to energy saving: tools for SMEs