Managing our greenhouse gas emissions

We are one of the largest energy users in the East of England. This is a big cost to us as well as having an adverse effect on the environment through the resulting green house gas emissions.

Through our energy initiative we have been working tirelessly to reduce our energy use.... and it's working. Last year we cut our overall electricity use for the fourth year running.  But it doesn't stop there. We have set ourselves goals to halve our overall green house emissions by 2035 (from 2010 levels) and to halve the embodied carbon in all new assets we build in 2015, compared to those that were built in 2010.

Meeting these goals will be a big challenge and there's no one solution. That's why we are continuing to increase our use of renewable energy that we generate at our sites. Our people are helping us too by being more energy conscious and we are working with partners to promote sustainable practices in our day to day activities.

We have published our annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions report 2010.  This has been produced following guidance from DEFRA and is expected to become a mandatory reporting requirement for companies in 2012.

The report provides a detailed breakdown of our emissions in 2010, together with performance over the previous two years and highlights our medium term targets and longer term aspirations.