Health and Sustainable Development Network

 Carbon calculators

 
World Wildlife Fund - www.footprint.wwf.org.uk
Learning and Teaching Scotland - www.ltscotland.org.uk/sustainabledevelopment
The Carbon Trust   www.carbontrust.co.uk   Click on public sector (on the right), then on NHS carbon management, and then on 'Calculate your organisation's carbon footprint'. This is an online calculator developed for organisations.  

Try out this carbon test based on one in Low Carbon Leadership - a workbook for decision makers.   Let us know what you think of it and try it out with others at work.

Best Foot Forward have created free Standard and 10:10 versions of Footprinter carbon management software for businesses and organisations http://www.footprinter.com/

The UK Public Health Association has measured and is reducing the carbon footprint of their very large annual conference.  See http://www.ukphaconference.org.uk/sustainable.html for details of what they are doing for the March 2009 Annual Forum.   They will not be serving meat in view of its very large carbon footprint. They used Best Foot Forward to measure the carbon footprint last year’s Forum.

·        Sustainable_Events_Guide_from_Defra: www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/government/advice/documents/SustainableEventsGuide.pdf

·         Sustainable Food for Meetings – Catering Guide from Sustain http://www.sustainweb.org/page.php?id=425

Reducing the carbon footprint of events and conferences: we have collected up three useful resources: