Sustainability at the University of Worcester

During one of our final lectures of the module, we were given an informative talk on the current sustainability of our university, and how things may have improved over time. This really gave me a thorough idea of how a working company/organisation deal with keeping their emissions down to a minimum, while ensuring they are keeping their customers/visitors (and in this case, students) satisfied.

Some of the points covered during the talk are as follows:

The World Resource Institute emissions classification - 
Scope 1) Direct emissions
Scope 2) Emissions of purchased electricity consumed by organisation
Scope 3) All other indirect emissions 

The University of Worcester began measuring this in 2006, and by 2010 had re-examined their targets, so that by this point they intend to achieve:

> 5% per year reduction in scopes 1 and 2 from 2010 - 2015
> 3% per year reduction from 2015 - 2020
> Reductions in scope 3 to match

I found this talk to be useful to me as it gave me an insight into how larger companies work towards making it clear to their consumers how they are working towards minimal landfill and emissions and what they can do to help. Therefore encouraging them to get involved as a part of a bigger organisation. I feel that this talk was particularly relevant to my project brief as my focus is encouraging Lea & Perrins' consumers to purchase the product and be a part of a bigger community working towards lower levels in landfill and emissions.