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Corporate Environmental Policy, EMS, and Carbon Target
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To consider plans to rescind the existing
Corporate Environmental Policy and replace it with the new policy,
recertify the externally-audited corporate environmental management
system to the current international standard, and increase the
corporate carbon reduction target from a 50% cut by 2020 to a 65%
cut by the same date against a 2005 baseline.
Decision:
1. That the existing corporate Environmental Policy be rescinded and replaced with the new policy within the report.
2. That the externally-audited corporate environmental management system be re-certified to the current international standard, ISO14001:2015
3. That the corporate carbon reduction target be increased from a 50% cut by 2020 to a 65% cut by the same date against a 2005 baseline.
Report author: Alex Minshull
Publication date: 07/11/2017
Date of decision: 07/11/2017
Decided at meeting: 07/11/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 16/11/2017
Accompanying Documents:
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