easitNETWORK is a powerful working partnership designed to support and encourage the most influential businesses in a local area to adopt alternative and sustainable transport behaviours to reduce pollution, ease congestion and increase satisfaction within its staff base

By bringing together the major employers in an area, easitNETWORK generates a critical mass, enabling the introduction and use of far more initiatives that could not necessarily be taken up by one of the organisations alone. The benefits of this approach are in establishing a working partnership, creating a sense of community and a sizeable group that is more effective in lobbying for changes to public transport provision, generating funding for new initiatives and creating a better sense of community. Since launching in 2005, easitNETWORK has grown to represent over 50 businesses employing over 200,000 staff across 3 counties!

A new report* shows that those companies taking the threat of climate change seriously experience a stronger stock market performance, and have provided investors with approximately double the average total return over the last six years. While some companies fail to invest in reducing their footprint because of concerns about the payback time, the report actually shows that 59% of projects, ranging from energy efficiency to staff behaviour change, had covered their costs within three years.

*Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 10th Annual Survey – Accelerating low carbon growth