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This brings the total carbon savings achieved by the Carbon Trust since its creation in 2001 to 10.8 million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to more than the combined annual emissions of Birmingham and the City of Edinburgh.

The Carbon Trust was created to accelerate the UK's transition to a low carbon economy by helping organisations reduce their carbon emissions and developing commercial low carbon technologies.

The Trust makes more than 5000 site visits to businesses and public sector organisations providing practical advice and hands-on actions to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.  Through this work they calculate that they identify a potential annual cost savings of between £485-543 million.

This year they successfully completed an NHS carbon management pilot with 10 NHS Trusts, which identified savings of more than 60,000 tonnes of CO2 with associated cost savings of £8 million. The pilot will be rolled out to another 16 NHS Trusts in 2007/08.

The Trust not only offers advice but helps fund research and take-up of renewable and energy efficient technologies.  This year they have offered 482 interest-free energy efficiency loans to SMEs worth more than £18 million and have supported the development of low carbon technologies with the launch of a £5 million Biomass heat accelerator, a new £3.5 million Marine Energy accelerator and adding 11 new companies to the Carbon Trust incubator scheme.