According to a new YouGov survey of over 4,300 employees carried out for the Carbon Trust, even though the vast majority of UK employees want to reduce workplace greenhouse gas emissions, few are being given the guidance to help them do so.

Four fifths of UK employees say they have no access to training on how to reduce their firm's carbon emissions, despite evidence green education programs represent one of the most effective ways of cutting corporate emissions.

Only one fifth said their employer was doing enough to curb emissions, while 80 percent said there was no training in place to help them cut energy use and emissions at work. However, of those that had undertaken green workplace training 93 per cent rated it as "fairly" or "very" useful.

Hugh Jones, solutions director at the Carbon Trust, said that simple initiatives such as offering staff training and appointing a specific team for managing carbon emissions reductions represented a cost effective means of cutting both greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills.