The University of Leeds: It All Adds Up

The University of Leeds, a leading UK-based centre of environmental impact and sustainability research, wanted to develop a campus-based communications programme to deliver against its Carbon Management Plan (CMP).

The University of Leeds: It All Adds Up

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Client: The University of LeedsCategory: Internal Communications

Executive summary

The University of Leeds is one of the world's leading centres for environmental impact and sustainability research. It is an organisation with 40,647* people, more than 100 buildings and around 70,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually. The energy bill is over £10.5 million a year, with costs projected to rise (through tariff increases and taxation) to £17.9 million in 2020/21. The University's goal is to target carbon reduction of 35% (against the 2005/2006 baseline) by 2020/21, potentially saving around...

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