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Green ImpactJess Cordy
Sustainable Development Placement
Charlotte TaylorGreen Impact Project Officer
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* 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
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University of Leeds…take 2
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Workbook!
www.greenimpact.org.uk/leeds
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Green Impact Criteria categories
• Biodiversity and the Community• Greening Teams, Action Plans and Communications• Electricity/Energy• Heating• Procurement• Travel• Waste- Recycling, Reusing, Reducing• Water
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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
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Getting started with Bronze and Silver
Challenge: What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact?
How would you implement these?
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What are the challenges you may face?
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B017: Department has identified, ranked and documented what it believes are its five most significant environmental impacts, and identified steps to reduce these.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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]
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Contact details
Your Green Impact Project Officer:Charlotte Taylor
[email protected] 07817 010 044
Green Impact Project Manager:Jo Kemp
[email protected] 07818 592813