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Climate change and the impact of human activity on the environment are increasingly recognised as issues to be tackled in the workplace.

Workplaces are responsible for over half the UK and Republic of Ireland’s energy usage and carbon emissions. If we are going to successfully reduce the negative impact that our society has on the environment we will have to make significant changes to the way that we work. 

Unite understands that unless unions are actively engaged with the sustainable workplaces agenda it will have little chance of success. Even worse employers will simply implement changes without consultation and with potentially damaging repercussions on working terms and conditions.

This is why Unite is actively campaigning to improve the environmental practices of workplaces in the Education Sector.

 

• Environmental Framework Agreement

  Click here for an example agreement for tackling environmental issues in the workplace.

• Higher Education Greening the Workplace survey

  Click her to read the full survey report.

• How can union members make their workplaces become greener & lower carbon?

  Click here to link to a TUC document reflecting on the lessons learned from the Carbon Trust/TUC Greenworkplace Project 06/07.

• Links and Resources

  Click here to see links and resources on Greening the workplace in the education sector.

• TUSDAC Website

  Click here to visit the Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee website.

• Unite calls on universities to clean up their environmental act

  Click here to read the press release.