PGN Presentations: Greening a Publishing Company (Earthscan)

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1. Slide 1:Environmental Policy
2. Slide 2: Initially not formalised • For many years, just informal initiatives • Staff concern at lack of visible activity • WWF order required supplier questionnaire to be completed, approved • Scrambled through that • Set up environment team 2005, volunteers from all departments
3. Slide 3: Starting Points • Environment policy • Standards • Quantify impacts • Paper • Offsetting • Office energy use (existing, new) • Other initiatives
4. Slide 4:Formulating Environment Policy • Who was this for? – Staff – Customers – Other stakeholders, authors etc • Several iterations • Important to ensure policy is meaningful, testable • On web site
5. Slide 5: Standards • Looked carefully at existing standards - ISO 14001 - EMAS - Accountability - Others • Didn’t