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Become a CPD-certified Green Champion
2025-03-28 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-02 10:00 - 12:30 UTC
Rising energy costs, the climate emergency and increasing consumer pressure continue to impact businesses and challenge the way they manage their environmental performance.
The good news is Business Energy Scotland’s Green Champions training course has already helped over 4,000 professionals from organisations across Scotland to prepare for this challenge.
And this is your chance to join them. This webinar will pack the entire Green Champions foundation modules into one session and provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to grow a green, profitable business.

Making Room for Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism
2025-07-31 15:00 - 16:00
Join us to explore how data is transforming environmental sustainability in the hospitality and tourism sector.
The panel will examine how data is being used to monitor and improve material and water use, reduce waste, meet emissions goals and mitigate biodiversity impact.
As sustainability reporting requirements grow more complex, we will also hear how data can drive compliance, unlock efficiencies, and support long-term environmental goals.

The Agroforestry Show 2025
2025-09-10 10:00 - 2025-09-11 17:00
It’s time to gather to share advice and ideas about how to integrate trees and farming!
With more farms looking to diversify, increase their resilience and help fight climate change, agroforestry offers a solution that works for both farming and nature, while also offering opportunity for innovation within the forestry sector.
So join us at The Agroforestry Show to learn how Agroforestry has the power to improve biodiversity and soil health, cut carbon emissions and produce healthy nutritious food and sustainable timber.

How SMEs can use digital tools to track and improve ESG impact
2025-09-10 13:00 - 14:00
SMEs are facing increasing pressure from customers, supply chains and regulators to understand, measure and report their social and environmental impact. Where do you start and how can technology help?
Join Denise Taylor from Wylde Connections for an engaging one-hour webinar, where she will explore practical ways that small and medium-sized businesses can leverage digital tools to advance their ESG and sustainability initiatives.
What we’ll cover:

Why ESG reporting matters for SMEs in today’s business landscape
How technology is revolutionising carbon tracking, supply chain mapping and social value measurement
A look at the fast-growing world of carbon accounting and GHG tools, life cycle assessments (LCAs), value chain mapping, stakeholder and social impact monitoring
The role of AI and automation in ESG data and strategy
Mini demo of Enveglas: A smart ESG diagnostic tool designed specifically for SMEs

Climate Cafe - Lets Talk About How AI Could Help
2025-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Creative Exchange, Stormont Street, Perth, PH1 5NW
Come and join the conversation about using AI in climate action.
We want to talk about the issues as well as the opportunities, encourage you to try, so you can see how it can be useful.
Climate Cafe GrowBiz is a small friendly gathering and the ideal safe environment to ask questions, share doubts and give it a go.
Bring a laptop or tablet if you can but a smart phone will also work. If you’ve already had some experience of using AI we would love to hear your about experience – good or bad and what you can share with us.
For those who have yet to try, we will be showing you how to start and then refine your questions to get the responses you need. You’ll be surprised!
Bring your curiosity, have a coffee and chat.
You are very welcome to drop in for part or all of the session but it would be helpful to know numbers so please do book on the link. GrowBiz provide enterprise support to businesses, enterprises and the self-employed in rural Scotland (i.e. out with cities)- please only a book a place if you are based in rural Scotland.

Understand, Measure and Report on your Company's Carbon Footprint
2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:00
Four years on from the launch of the Scottish Business Climate Collaboration – set up as a legacy from COP 26 in Glasgow – COP 30 is poised to focus on readiness, resilience and real world action to tackle climate change. So, what does this mean for the wider business community in Scotland and across the UK?
Join us for this 1 hour webinar, where Zero Waste Scotland will set out how the Scottish Business Climate Collaboration’s free interactive online learning portal and carbon tool is providing businesses like yours with the opportunity to understand carbon, identify hotpots and ultimately develop your Climate Action plan.
Scotland is leading the way with this unique, free interactive learning framework which provides a step by step guide through 12 e-learning modules, resources guidance and access to a comprehensive carbon tool. The framework is also open to businesses across the UK to use.

VisitScotland Business Essentials Bitesize Webinars: How to take those first steps in climate action
2025-12-04 14:00 - 14:30
Discover the steps you should consider when developing your first climate action plans, with practical guidance on where to go when considering developing sustainability goals and targeting your emissions.
This VisitScotland Business Essentials webinar is suitable for businesses starting out in their climate plan journey.

VisitScotland climate tools on the Business Support Hub
2026-01-15 14:00 - 14:30
Discover VisitScotland’s Business Support Hub Sustainability pages – showing you how to navigate resources, access climate tools, and use self-service options to develop or enhance your climate action plan.
We’ll walk you through the VisitScotland Climate Action Plan and create a more sustainable business together.

Net Zero with GrowBiz and Wasted Degrees
2026-01-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Wasted Degrees Brewery, Pitlochry, PH18 5TL
Are you interested in hearing how other businesses have approached difficult challenges? In particular how to make solutions work for the environment and the bottom line? Join us and Conall and Jack to talk about innovative solutions for packaging, the supply chain, raw materials and waste management in the Blair Atholl Brewery. They will tell us their story, join the discussion and chat informally as well as offering a tour and taste!
Theirs is an inspiring story; growth has been rapid from ‘hobby’ to business and they are already planning to move to a larger site. Their commitment to recycling the energy produced by the brewing process is driving the next initiative.
Whatever your sector you’ll find something to consider differently and you’ll definitely be inspired by the brothers’ innovative thinking that enables them to make ‘good decisions’ for the environment, the community and their staff.

Sustainability in tenders: A practical guide for SMEs
2026-02-17 13:00 - 14:00
In this session, we’ll break down what sustainability requirements are starting to show up more regularly in tenders and bids – especially those linked to government procurement – and how your small business can get ahead of them.
We’ll cover what’s legally required today, what’s likely to come next and what practical steps small businesses can take to build credible responses without needing in-house sustainability teams.
Topics covered in this session:

Why sustainability is increasingly embedded in procurement and tendering processes
What a compliant carbon reduction plan looks like – and what businesses often miss
Practical steps SMEs can take to meet requirements and stand out
