Bronze Phase: Planning - Awarded August 2010
There are four key elements to the planning phase, which are:
1. Gaining senior management commitment to support and provide the human and financial resources for the scheme of continual improvement. This commitment is in place but it is important that the commitment remains to ensure the scheme is completed within 3 years.
2. Conducting a baseline environmental review to determine the organisation’s current level of environmental performance. There are ten impact areas as indicated below. An important element of this process is to identify where these impacts are felt throughout the University estate along with indentifying the legislative framework under which it operates.
- Policy
- Community involvement
- Energy & Water
- Emissions and Discharges
- Transport
- Health, Welfare & Safety
- Waste Management
- Environmental Management Systems
- Construction and Refurbishment
- Sustainable Procurement
- Education for Sustainable Development
3. Creating a draft environmental policy. The University already had in place a Sustainability Policy and it was felt appropriate to extend this to include the key requirements of the Environmental Policy, which was approved in February 2010. As far as EcoCampus is concerned the policy remains draft until it contains or references the detail of the environmental aspects and impacts that will be established through the Implementing (Silver) phase.
4. Planning and implementing environmental awareness training. In a large and complex organisation such as a University there are many communities and many mechanisms for raising awareness. Additionally, it is important that the awareness raising requirements of the Carbon Management Programme are seen as integral to this process.
