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Empowering Sustainable Development: Green Impact Initiatives at the University of Leeds

Discover the Green Impact project at the University of Leeds, designed to promote sustainable development and environmental responsibility through engaging teams. This initiative focuses on evaluating environmental aspects and impacts, implementing changes, and celebrating achievements from August to May. Join us in our efforts to minimize energy consumption, reduce waste, and enhance biodiversity. With support from dedicated project officers, participants can navigate the challenges of sustainability while achieving Bronze and Silver accreditation levels. Embrace the opportunity to make a difference!

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Empowering Sustainable Development: Green Impact Initiatives at the University of Leeds

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  1. Green Impact Jess Cordy Sustainable Development Placement Charlotte Taylor Green Impact Project Officer

  2. Project Cycle Teams implement changes October-February * Workbook amends and initial audits August-October Workbook launch and team recruitment September-October Celebration April-May Workbook Submission and Audits March Evaluation June-August

  3. University of Leeds…take 2

  4. Workbook! www.greenimpact.org.uk/leeds

  5. Green Impact Criteria categories • Biodiversity and the Community • Greening Teams, Action Plans and Communications • Electricity/Energy • Heating • Procurement • Travel • Waste- Recycling, Reusing, Reducing • Water

  6. Continued development…

  7. Getting started with Bronze and Silver Challenge: What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact? How would you implement these?

  8. What are the challenges you may face?

  9. B017: Department has identified, ranked and documented what it believes are its five most significant environmental impacts, and identified steps to reduce these.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Example: Impacts and aspects Impact: contributes to global warming Aspect: Use of printer Impact: use of fossil fuels: burden on earths resources Activity: Printing agendas for meetings Aspect: Use of paper Impact: Deforestation

  13. Exercise Identifying your own environmental aspects and impacts. • 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

  14. GENERAL CONSIDERATION • 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

  15. How can the lead environmental contacts support the Green Impact teams? • 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

  16. How can the Green Impact Project Officer support Green Impact teams? • Support the Lead Environmental Contact support you • Provide you with national statistics/ communications • Help finalise the workbook • Provide detailed feedback for University and individual teams • Lead workshops and provide support whenever you ask it • Charlotte Taylor: charlotte.taylor@nus.org.uk

  17. 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

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