Its aim is to accelerate the pace of private sector decarbonisation and increase energy efficiency in the United Kingdom and worldwide.

[1] The Carbon Trust was conceived as a business-led, publicly funded organisation operating at arms length from the UK government.

The Trust reconfigured the EEBPP to improve its focus and services to business under a new branding called "Action Energy".

The Carbon Trust presents itself as a global organisation, with offices in Mexico, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, South Africa, the UK and USA.

It also works with governments and corporations on low carbon technologies,[10] including offshore wind and marine energy.

[13] Examples of organisations who have held the Carbon Standard include Sky, Aldi, Eurotunnel, Bupa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Samsung Electronics, Angus Council, Capital & Regional, O2, npower, Credit Suisse and the Scottish Government.

[15] In November 2013 the waste standard was awarded to the first wave of organisations, which included The Football Association, Renishaw, Whitbread, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AkzoNobel Decorative Paints.

[16] It is the world's first independent certification for organisations that are measuring, managing and reducing greenhouse gas (CO2e) emissions in their supply chains.