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Green Impact. Jess Cordy Sustainable Development Placement Charlotte Taylor Green Impact Project Officer. Project Cycle. Teams implement changes October-February. * Workbook amends and initial audits August-October. Workbook launch and team recruitment September-October. Celebration - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Green ImpactJess Cordy
Sustainable Development Placement
Charlotte TaylorGreen Impact Project Officer
* Workbook amends and initial audits
August-October
Workbook launch and team
recruitment
September-October
Teams implement changes
October-February
Workbook Submission and
Audits
March
Celebration
April-May
Evaluation
June-August
Project Cycle
University of Leeds…take 2
Workbook!
www.greenimpact.org.uk/leeds
Green Impact Criteria categories
• Biodiversity and the Community• Greening Teams, Action Plans and Communications• Electricity/Energy• Heating• Procurement• Travel• Waste- Recycling, Reusing, Reducing• Water
Continued development…
GI Score Distributed by Workbook Theme (Bronze, Silver and Gold combined)
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Biodiversity andCommunity
DepartmentalPlanning andEmbedding
Electricity Energy Greening Teams andAction Plans
Heating Procurement Transport Waste Widercommunications
Finance
UniversityAverage
TotalAvailable
Getting started with Bronze and Silver
Challenge: What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact?
How would you implement these?
What are the challenges you may face?
B017: Department has identified, ranked and documented what it believes are its five most significant environmental impacts, and identified steps to reduce these.
Your environmental impacts
• Surroundings in which an organisation operates
• Includes air, water, land, national resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation
• Surroundings in this context extend from within an organisation to the global system
Impacts and aspects
Environmental Aspect
• any element of an organisation’s activities, products or services, that can interact with the environment.
Environmental impact
• any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisations activities, products or services
Example: Impacts and aspects
Activity:Printing agendas for meetings
Aspect: Use of printer
Aspect: Use of paper
Impact: contributes to global warming
Impact: use of fossil fuels: burden on earths resources
Impact: Deforestation
Exercise
Identifying your own environmental aspects and impacts.
• Brainstorm your activities• What environmental aspects are associated with these?• What are the environmental impacts of this?• Identify the significance of each impact:
• Intensity• Likelihood
GENERAL CONSIDERATION
• Direct or indirect• Real or perceived• Occur under normal operating conditions• Occur under abnormal operating conditions• Due to accident• Due to incident (eg vandalism)• Due to past (or future) activities
How can the lead environmental contacts support the Green Impact teams?
• Support team leaders to find teams• University-wide communications• Link between departments• Secure line manager’s approval- with your help
• Launch events, workshops, extravagant awards ceremony…
Jess Cordy: [email protected]
How can the Green Impact Project Officer support Green Impact teams?
• Support the Lead Environmental Contact support you• Provide you with national statistics/ communications• Help finalise the workbook• Provide detailed feedback for University and individual teams• Lead workshops and provide support whenever you ask it
Charlotte Taylor: [email protected]
Contact details
Your Green Impact Project Officer:Charlotte Taylor
[email protected] 07817 010 044
Green Impact Project Manager:Jo Kemp
[email protected] 07818 592813