Green Impact
Jess Cordy
Sustainable Development Placement
Charlotte Taylor
Green Impact Project Officer
Project Cycle
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Workbook amends
and
initial audits
Workbook launch
and team
recruitment
August-October
SeptemberOctober
Evaluation
Celebration
June-August
April-May
Teams implement
changes
October-February
Workbook
Submission and
Audits
March
University of Leeds…take 2
Workbook!
www.greenimpact.org.uk/leeds
Green Impact Criteria categories
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Biodiversity and the Community
Greening Teams, Action Plans and Communications
Electricity/Energy
Heating
Procurement
Travel
Waste- Recycling, Reusing, Reducing
Water
Continued development…
100
90
80
Finance
70
University
Average
60
Total
Available
50
40
30
20
10
0
Biodiversity and
Community
Departmental
Planning and
Embedding
Electricity
Energy
Greening Teams and
Action Plans
Heating
Procurement
Transport
Waste
Wider
communications
GI Score Distributed by Workbook Theme (Bronze, Silver and Gold combined)
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
Impact: contributes to
global warming
Activity:
Printing agendas
for meetings
Aspect: Use of
printer
Impact: use of fossil
fuels: burden on earths
resources
Aspect: Use of
paper
Impact: Deforestation
Exercise
Identifying your own environmental aspects and
impacts.
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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
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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?
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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: j.cordy@leeds.ac.uk
How can the Green Impact Project Officer
support Green Impact teams?
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Support the Lead Environmental Contact support you
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Provide you with national statistics/ communications
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Help finalise the workbook
• Provide detailed feedback for University and individual
teams
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Lead workshops and provide support whenever you ask it
Charlotte Taylor: charlotte.taylor@nus.org.uk
Contact details
Your Green Impact Project Officer:
Charlotte Taylor
charlotte.taylor@nus.org.uk
07817 010 044
Green Impact Project Manager:
Jo Kemp
Jo.kemp@nus.org.uk
07818 592813