BT marked Earth Day by announcing they were joining the UK Business Climate Hub partnership to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to take steps to halve emissions by 2030, and pointed their SMB clients to the Hub's ‘Seven Steps to Sustainability’.

The UK Business Climate Hub is the UK portal for SME net zero advice, developed with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the international SME Climate Hub and the UK’s main business organisations, energy networks, high street banks and professional bodies. The coalition is managed by the Broadway Initiative and endorsed by the Net Zero Council.

Existing members of the coalition include Barclays, British Business Bank, British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Electricity North West, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), HSBC UK, Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), Institute of Directors (IoD), Lloyds Bank, Make UK, NatWest, National Grid, Northern Powergrid, and Sage.

Broadway Initiative Net Zero Direction Chris Taylor spoke to Chris Sims, BT's Managing Director for Small and Medium Business. Watch the conversation here 

The Broadway Initiative has launched the Nature Market Dialogue, the space in which stakeholders and influencers can collaborate on the future of UK nature markets. The launch took place on the 25^th March during a roundtable that marked the commencement of the Dialogue’s first workstream, a deep dive into nature market governance.

Read more about the launch of the Nature Markets Dialogue

Visit the UK Nature Markets Dialogue website

The Broadway Initiative has released a review of the progress towards establishing high integrity markets for nature across the UK. The State of UK Nature Markets Report 2023 found that ‘some progress’ has been made towards the goals outlined in the ground-breaking Financing Nature Recovery UK Report published in July 2022, but the most significant opportunities lie ahead.

Read the State of UK Nature Markets Report

The Government’s Net Zero Council has announced the creation of a single platform for net zero advice for UK small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The UK Business Climate Hub website is an unprecedented collaboration between UK government, all major business organisations acting under the umbrella of the Broadway Initiative, and the SME Climate Hub.

Read more about the UK Business Climate Hub here