Environmental Objectives and Target Action Plan

[Pages:10]Draft EM 10 Environmental Objectives and Target Annual Action Plan 1st August 2014 ? 31st July 2015

Updated every 3 months and reported to ESG (Oct, Jan, April, July)

Excellent

Very good

Adequate

Inadequate

No Theme

Objective

Project(s)

Responsibility

Weak Tracker

Impact Forecast

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Environmental Work towards

Implement the internal Audit

Management maintaining ISO14001

programme

System (EMS) Environmental

Management standard

Health and Safety Team

Compliance with ISO 14001

A wide range of projects designed to

promote and raise awareness of

Communication, To continually improve good environmental policies and

Awareness

2

Raising and

our performance regarding staff and

practices with staff, students and other stakeholders across the

Involvement

student engagement.

University.

1

Enhanced campus environment;

pro environmental behaviour change and increase life skills for

students via volunteering

2.1

Development of the Bicentennial

BEST staff and students

Project

Enhanced campus

gardens to incorporate a `grow your

underway.

environment;

own' area for University staff.

pro environmental

behaviour change and

increase life skills for

students via volunteering

2.2

Installing communication posters to BEST members and

Project planned

Halls kitchens - Communicate recycling options and types of materials that can be recycled by placing posters and re-new bin labelling to Halls kitchens.

Support Services Manager.

in October 2014

Meetings with Residences over the summer. Possibility of

Pro environmental behaviour change and increase life skills for students via volunteering

placing leaflet in

Student

handbook.

Funding of around ?800 required for printing and stickers.

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2.3

2.4 Staff Engagement Activity

2.5

2.6

Student Switch Off campaign to enable and encourage behavioural change and reduce energy consumption in residences

Residences staff and mentors

Annually, September May

Reduce carbon footprint and increase pro environmental behaviour change

Through Green Impact Audit results Health and Safety Team

Develop environmental courses to encourage behaviour change across campus.

Basic course in place by Sept 2014 to be developed and fully embedded with all staff by 2016.

Increase pro environmental behaviour change

Raise awareness of environmental issues and recycling best practise by displaying posters and involving residents in kitchen meetings.

Residences Student Mentors involve residents in kitchen meetings at the beginning of the Academic Year.

Increase pro environmental behaviour change and increase life skills for students via volunteering

UBS Green Impact Audit results

Work in collaboration with the UBS and, where possible, implement the findings from their Green Impact results.

ESG/UBS

Reduce carbon footprint and increase pro environmental behaviour change

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Carbon Emissions

4

Energy

4.1

5

Water

5.1

Travel 6

To continually improve our performance in reducing carbon emissions

To continually improve our performance in reducing energy consumption

To continually improve our performance in reducing water consumption

Continue to work towards the 2017/18 milestones to meet the 2020/21 target

Continue to work towards the 2017/18 milestones to meet the 2020/21 target

Report on energy saving measures via such mediums as; web sites, electronic display boards; and Energy trails

Planned projects list for 2014-15: 1 2 3

Estates/ Carbon Reduction Action Group (CRAG)

Estates/CRAG Computer Centre

Reduce carbon footprint Reduce carbon footprint

Estates

Phase 3 by July 2015

Increase pro environmental behaviour change

Estates/ CRAG Estates

Increase pro environmental behaviour change and reduce our carbon footprint

To continually improve our performance in

Operations Team

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reducing the environmental impacts associated with transport.

Implement the Annual Travel Plan work programme

6.2

To inform the campus of alternative

travel options, using social media,

Operations and UBS websites and via

BEST volunteers

Recycling and

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Waste

7.1

7.2

To continually improve our performance in reducing our various waste streams

To encourage the recycling of unwanted items and promote recycling - avoiding so much waste at the end of the Academic Year.

Residencies

Also to promote links with the local community

Communicate recycling options and types of materials that can be recycled by placing posters and renew bin labelling to Admin/Student

5

BEST.

July

October 14 ? May 15

Increase pro environmental behaviour change and reduce our carbon footprint

Increase pro environmental behaviour change and reduce our carbon footprint

Increase pro environmental behaviour change

Project planned in October 2014

Funding of

Increase pro environmental behaviour change

areas of campus.

around ?500 required for printing and stickers.

7.3

Waste Recycling Competition ?

Residences

Data captured Increase pro

"What a Load of Rubbish!" To

from October ? environmental behaviour

encourage residents to recycle as

March.

change

much waste as possible.

Presentation of

?50 cheque for

Rag and

Recycling Glass

Trophy to

winning

complex in May.

7.4

Encourage recycling and waste best Commercial Services/ ESG October 2014 ? Increase pro

practises ? Staff

December 2014 environmental behaviour

Provide information and make

change

recommendation to university

departments and schools on how to

recycle more.

7.5

To encourage recycling by having

Health and Safety Team, Have clear

Increase pro

clearly identified bins and labelling Colleges, Institutes and

signage by

environmental behaviour

as to what goes in each.

Commercial Services

2014/15 intake change

and have all

bins clearly

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labelled.

7.6

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Biodiversity

Manage all University owned, managed and leased land in an environmentally sustainable fashion.

To encourage IT product recycling by educating schools and departments of options

Computer Centre

Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)

Grounds and Biodiversity Manager

On-going

Procurement To reduce, where

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and fair-trade possible, the

environmental impacts

associated with

procurement and

continue to maintain Fair-

trade status(or

equivalent) and increase

Fair-trade stock on

campus

Procurement

Increase pro environmental behaviour change

Enhanced campus environment

Increase pro environmental behaviour change and increase life skills for students via volunteering

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9.1

To raise awareness of environmental Sustainable Procurement On-going

Increase pro

and sustainability impacts and

Group (SPG)

environmental behaviour

encourage best practise during

change

contract planning and negotiations

9.2

To investigate and report on options SPG

October 2014 Increase pro

to encourage and enable staff and

environmental behaviour

students (at the procurement stage)

change

to reduce waste by recycling on

campus.

9.3

To provide staff and students who SPG to source and employ Pilot training Increase pro

purchase on behalf of the University an external training

scheme to be environmental behaviour

training to encourage and enable

provider to provide training implemented change

them to make sustainable

workshops to staff and

October 2014 ?

procurement choices

post graduate students

December 2014

with purchasing

responsibilities

9.4

Investigation into practical methods SPG to identify practical Project to be Increase pro

of encouraging behavioural change mechanisms to enhance reviewed

environmental behaviour

behavioural change on

October 2014 change

campus

and annually

Construction 10 and

To manage and mitigate the environmental impact

refurbishment associated with

construction activities as

required by best practice

Estates

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