• Up to £1,250 in government payments available to install eco heaters
• £15 million in total to support up to 25,000 installations, with a review after £10m
• Information line and website launched today
• Close monitoring of the technologies to help understand performance

Have you been making environmental or green claims about your products, services and your business itself. Environmental lawyer, Helen Loose, advises you to think carefully about what you say in light of the governement's latest guidelines.

Many small firms are keen to adopt environment friendly measures but are put off by the cost, says a business lobby group.

The government needs to encourage green business policies, added the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

In its report: Small Businesses and the Low Carbon Economy, the FSB said the UK is aiming to cut its carbon emissions by 20% within a decade.Yet the sheer costs involved deter many smaller firms from adopting green policies.