Inbrief

Taylor Wimpey, the UK home-builder, is working with Carbon Trust Advisory Services to help it develop a low-carbon business strategy. Aims include reducing carbon from its core operations and supply chain, and finding ways to mitigate the risks of rising energy, waste and other resource costs. Taylor Wimpey director Peter Andrew said: “Strategic assessment and management of carbon and energy will yield sustainability and financial benefits, including greater resilience to future energy price increases.”