Becoming a greener organisation
We're dedicated to becoming more
environmentally friendly. We've built 'green' issues into all
our key corporate plans, signed up to the Carbon
Trust’s Carbon Management Programme, and are looking for other ways
to keep improving.
Currently:
- our carbon footprint is approximately 4,500 tonnes of
CO2
- 60% is from our buildings and 40% is from our vehicles (either
fleet or claimed mileage)
We will reduce our carbon footprint by 10% over the next three
years and we have set a preliminary target of reducing it by 35%
over five years on our baseline of 2008/09.
So how are we going to achieve this?
Some things we are considering include:
- getting smart meters so we can see how much energy is being
used in different places
- our property programme includes energy saving measures related
to boilers, windows and appliance bay doors
- we hope to obtain funding to make changes at stations such as
cavity and loft insulation and lighting controls
- we have introduced a Green Guardian scheme – asking staff to
champion the cause and encourage energy saving behaviour at a local
level
- we will carry out a survey of all staff to understand how much
people know about climate change
- we will also survey staff on their journey to work and business
mileage to find out current behaviour and habits to see how we can
change these