Climate Action Plan
Sport, Exercise and Health Climate Action Plan sets out the specific carbon reduction activities that the division is taking to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
Why do we have a Climate Action Plan?
We are facing a global climate and biodiversity emergency. The natural ecosystems we depend upon are under significant and substantial threat and we are already witnessing the consequences of climate change. This Climate Action Plan is the divisions contributions to a net-zero carbon campus.
What is a Climate Action Plan (CAP)?
Sport, Exercise and Health (SEH) Climate Action Plan (CAP) sets out the specific carbon reduction activities that the division is taking to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. SEH CAP Co-Ordinator is Gordon Aitken and he Chairs a CAP coordinating group responsible for generating the divisions Plan. It is reviewed on an ongoing basis by both the Sustainability Department and the University's Sustainability Implementation and Monitoring Board. For more information on the University aims to go carbon netural, read their 8 point carbon plan.
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Our energy consumption
What we have done:
- All food and catering supplies are purchased from University approved suppliers
- LED lights installed in the Boat House, Outdoor Tennis Courts, Indoor Tennis Centre, Swimming Pool Hall
- Central Distribution for Cleaning Consumables
Work still to do:
- LED lights throughout all SEH buildings, and Pitch Floodlights
- Plan to eradicate single use items
- Life Cycle Equipment Plan needed
Contact us
If you have any questions about our Climate Action Plan please complete our online enquiry form.
Staff travel
What we have done:
- Travel for Student BUCS sport a major contributor for the Division. Full mapping exercise of journeys undertaken with a plan to reduce by 5% annually by lift sharing, public transports and shared coaches.
- Restructure staff to reduce travel between sites
- Utilisation of two electric cargo bikes to transport items between and around sites, pictured below
Work still to do
- Consolidate university vehicles into 2 EV’s from a fleet of three petrol/diesel vehicles
- Support Staff in making sustainable travel choices
Focusing on our buildings
What we have done:
- Ever increasing utilisation figures of our facilities, classes and programmes
- Installation of doors closers and automatic doors to minimse heat loss
- Linked Climate Action Plan initiatives to Capital Spending Plan and given them priority
Work still to do:
- Develop divisional KPI's relating to Climate Action Plan
- Develop building user guides for occupants