001: The Carbon Journey: This briefing note gives you an overview of the steps you should take when working to reduce your impact.
Making Policy
002. Climate Change: This briefing note introduces Climate Change. It explores the science behind climate change, asks if human factors are responsible and questions whether it is serious. This note can be a useful handout for staff if you are trying to raise awareness in your organisation.
003 Writing a Carbon Management Policy: This briefing note explains what a Carbon Management Policy is and provides guidance on how to write one for your organisation.
Communicating and Raising Awareness
004. Managing Change: This briefing note helps you deal with the people issues that are raised by introducing Carbon Management into your organisation.
Measuring and Monitoring
005. Carbon Footprinting: Just as every successful weight loss programme starts with stepping on the scales, effective carbon reductions start with an assessment of an organisation’s current carbon emissions – its carbon footprint. This briefing note introduces carbon footprints and outlines the steps involved in calculating your organisation’s carbon footprint.
Identifying Options
006. Greening Your Office: This briefing note looks at some of the ways that you can start to make changes towards becoming a greener office.
007. Lighting & Appliances: If you want to look at some ways that you can reduce your energy bills from lighting and appliances, you should read this briefing note. It also outlines how you can calculate the financial savings associated with the changes that you have made.
008. Heating Controls: This briefing note introduces heating controls for wet systems: what they are and how they can help you heat your premises efficiently.
009. Reducing Heat Loss in Your Building: This briefing note explores how heat is lost from your building and outlines ways that you can reduce this heat loss.
010. Condensing Boilers: You should refer to this briefing note if you are interested in purchasing a condensing boiler. It looks at when you might wish to install one, their cost and what steps to take next.
011. Travel Plans: Here you can learn about Travel Plans: what they are, how they can benefit your organisation and how to start designing one for your own organisation.
012. Water Use: This briefing note discusses water use: why you should work to minimise your water use and how you can reduce water consumption in your organisation.
013. Rainwater Harvesting: This briefing note explains what rainwater harvesting is and how it can help you reduce your water use and save you money.
014. Solar Thermal Energy: This briefing note introduces solar heating for buildings: what it is and how it can help you produce on-site generated heat.
015. Solar Photovoltaic (PV): This briefing note explains how Solar PV systems work, their advantages and disadvantages and areas of financial help.
016. Wood Fuel: This briefing note introduces wood fuel heating: what it is, why it is considered ‘low carbon’ and how it can help you heat your building.
Planning for Change
017. Carbon Management Action Plan: Once you have generated a long list of carbon reduction actions, you should refer to this briefing note for guidance on prioritising them and developing your Carbon Management Action Plan.
Help with Finance
018. Grants, Tax Credits & Capital Loans: For financial help, you should have a look at this briefing note. It outlines various financial schemes that may help you implement energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies in your enterprise.
019. Specific Grant Schemes: This briefing note expands on the ‘grants’ section of the ‘Grants, Tax Credits and Capital Loans’ briefing note, detailing grant schemes which are currently available.
Green Tourism and Marketing
020. Green Marketing: For help with marketing your green efforts and actions, you should refer to this briefing note. It introduces green marketing, how it can help promote your organisation and how you can start your own green marketing campaign.
021. Green Tourism: This briefing note explores ‘Green Tourism’: its meaning, how your organisation can become green and the challenges being faced by the Green Tourism industry.
022. Eco Labelling: Eco-labels are a useful way of demonstrating your green efforts. Here you will learn what an eco-label is, the debate surrounding them and what benefits they can yield.
Carbon Offsetting
023. Carbon Offsetting: Once you have taken steps to measure and reduce your carbon footprint, you may want to consider offsetting your remaining emissions by purchasing carbon offsets. This briefing note gives an overview of Carbon Offsetting, gives advice on when to offset your organisation’s emissions and examines issues of offset quality, project type and offset standards.
024. Forestry and Carbon Offsetting: In this briefing note you can learn more about Carbon Offsetting and Forestry. It gives an overview of carbon sequestration and examines issues of offset quality, project type and offset standards.
Briefing Notes
