Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.
Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.
Set up regular reporting on your decarbonisation process
Publishing your first annual emissions report is a key milestone. It marks the beginning of a yearly cycle of reviews, reports and improvements that take you closer to decarbonisation.
Engaging a specialist to improve your setting's Scope 3 data will help you to accurately measure, understand, and manage the often complex aspects of these emissions.
Auditing your first annual report is a crucial step in ensuring the accuracy, credibility, and effectiveness of your carbon footprint that you will publicly communicate.
Assess the effectiveness of your efforts to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions across your setting. Evaluate the effectiveness of energy reduction measures and reduced consumption patterns. Review the success of waste management practices - especially the increase in recycling rates and reduction in waste going to landfill. Assess the implementation of sustainable initiatives such as active travel plans, catering and general procurement.
Creating your setting's first emissions report is an important step in understanding and managing your carbon footprint. It involves creating a document that details the amount of carbon and greenhouse gas emissions your setting produces in a year, across Scope 1,2 and 3.
Identify suitable systems and tools that can help your setting capture and track its carbon and greenhouse gas emissions more accurately and comprehensively.
Refine the ways in which your setting collects, manages and analyses its emissions data and information across all three Scopes. This is important to ensure you are accurately tracking progress towards your net zero and decarbonisation goals.
Ensure that all necessary data is collected from the relevant sources and coordinate efforts across relevant teams. It can be helpful to develop a plan for this process well in advance, with a clear timeline and established responsibilities.