{"id":18384,"date":"2022-02-07T12:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=18384"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:37:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:37:19","slug":"22-smes-see-environment-and-sustainability-as-biggest-concern-for-business-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/22-smes-see-environment-and-sustainability-as-biggest-concern-for-business-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"22% SMEs See Environment And Sustainability As Biggest Concern For Business This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Annual report reveals around one in four (22%) SMEs see environmental and sustainability challenges as the biggest concern for their business this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A new report reveals SME owners across the country are calling for more government funding to help businesses go green this year (87%), as over a third state their customers care about what their business is doing for the environment along with their own employees (24%).<\/p>\n The annual\u00a02022 business challenges report<\/a>\u00a0carried out by card payments specialist\u00a0takepayments Limited<\/a>, surveyed SME business owners and decision-makers across the UK to discover the current small business landscape for the year ahead.<\/p>\n While the report findings reveal coronavirus restrictions as the biggest concern for small business owners for the year ahead (27%), around one in four (22%) \u00a0state environment and sustainability challenges as the biggest concern for their business (22%), second to coronavirus.<\/p>\n This is due to a number of factors including worries of changing policies in relation to the environment (27%), concerns over customer demands for more sustainable products and processes (10%) as more than a fifth (18%) of business owners state they have noticed their customers caring more about sustainability over the past year, as well as pressures around sustainability and green initiatives in general (29%).<\/p>\n