Carbon Management Plan

A great deal of work on Carbon Management and energy-saving has taken place in the
University over the previous few years. We were the very first University to take part in the
Carbon Trust Higher Education Carbon Management Scheme in 2003, we recently achieved a
target to reduce our carbon emissions by 12.5% per m 2 building floor area, and we have
already achieved £0.5m of annual savings from our electricity consumption compared to 4 years
ago with 1,360 tCO 2 saved annually.

An ever-evolving situation, however, has led to a new approach being required. The issue of
climate change and any organisation's responsibility to reduce carbon emissions is seen as
more pressing than ever. The expectations of our students, staff and external stakeholders for
our organisation to be incorporating sustainability in its key aims are increasing. The Climate
Change Act (2008) has set emissions reduction targets for the UK , and these are being
implemented in the HE sector via challenging targets set by HEFCE. There was also seen to be
a need to revisit the previous Carbon Trust process from 2003 which was then in its infancy,
and to build on this work as the original process has been improved and updated. The Carbon Management Plan is the key output from this process.

The purpose of this Plan is to set out a road map for the next 5 years of how the University
intends to achieve its own internal targets, covering technical projects, policy changes and the
financing to make it happen.

To read either the Management Summary of the Plan or the Carbon Management Plan in full, please follow the links below:

Management Summary

Carbon Management Plan in full.

Presentation to Council, March 2011

Carbon Management Summary

For information on our previous Carbon Strategy from 2003, click here