The essence of the Crichton Carbon Centre’s mission is to help Scotland, and particularly Dumfries & Galloway, reduce its climate change impact. In pursuing our mission we will comprehensively manage the carbon emissions which result from our activities. We will operate in ways which ensure the resulting emissions are minimised as far as reasonably practicable. The drive to do so will pervade CCC’s culture, structure, systems and strategy. It will guide each of us when we carry out every aspect of our work.

Specific Elements Of Carbon Management Policy in CCC

Staff Awareness & Attitudes – We will ensure our staff understand the importance of carbon management and have the skills and commitment necessary for the implementation of this policy.

Organisation – We will establish job roles with particular responsibility for ensuring that CCC implements its carbon management policy. We will establish a system for ongoing monitoring and improvement of our performance.

Decision-Making – We will ensure that we always take carbon implications into account in all our decision-making activity – at strategic and operational levels. There will be a presumption against any decision with high carbon implications unless there are very strong mitigating grounds.

Legislation, Regulation & Best Practise – We will comply with all relevant legislation and regulation. We will actively pursue understanding of what is best carbon management practise for our activities and seek to set an example for others to follow.

Operational Activity – We will carry out our activities to minimise carbon emissions – always seeking improvements.

Energy – We will monitor and take steps to minimise our energy use.

Waste – We will minimise waste by reducing, re-using and recycling materials wherever practical.

Water – We will endeavour to minimise our water use.

Transport – We will seek to reduce the travel related carbon impact of our activities. This includes the business travel of our own staff and also visitors to CCC. We accept responsibility for the travel of our staff to and from work and will encourage carbon reduction.

Supply Chains – We accept responsibility for all the carbon used in the supply chains providing goods and services which assist us in our work. In all our supply chain decisions we will give a high weighting to the carbon impact of different options. We will give preference to suppliers who have a strong carbon management policy in place.

Clients & Partners – We hope that our mission and the example which we set will encourage all organisations with which we work to implement a carbon management policy. Where the relationship allows we will actively encourage such developments.

Reporting and communicating  - We will report and communicate our carbon footprint to staff and the general public and communicate carbon reductions achieved by implementing a Carbon Management Action Plan.