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Environment Agency

Organisational challenge/context

As the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales it is essential for the Environment Agency to lead by example and they have therefore established a number of programmes designed to reduce their carbon footprint, not only through their business travel but also by actively encouraging their employees to adopt the same principles when travelling to and from work, in their everyday life and for pleasure.

Intervention(s)

A simple approach lies behind Agency's strategy: Don’t go, don’t drive and if you have to travel use the cleanest vehicle possible. With this approach the Agency utilises video, internet or audio-conferencing facilities to maximum effect.

The Agency uses public transport wherever possible and as a last resort and where public transport is impractical they use the vehicle with the lowest emissions i.e. their own pool cars, which have the lowest emissions or hire cars. Car sharing also plays a big part in their strategy.

Results/benefits

• Reduced commercial fleet by over 13% over the last two years, which translates to a significant financial and carbon saving
• Hit government’s target that all new deliveries for public sector car fleets had to have average CO₂ emissions of new cars of less than 130g CO₂/km by the end of March 2011, with the current CO₂ level on new deliveries at 124g CO₂/km
• Reduced annual business mileage by 385,000 miles a year saving the business in excess of £40,000 per annum

Company Description
Environment Agency is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Sponsored Public Body responsible to the National Assembly for Wales. Its principal aims are to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development

Website
www.environment-agency.gov.uk

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