EMS Overview
Facilities
During this 12-month period, from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 (referred to as FY07), WWF-UK closed four regional offices. We now operate from six locations: our head office in Godalming, Surrey (Panda House), two offices in Wales, and one each in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The impact on our overall environmental footprint includes a predictable reduction in energy consumed in the offices and a notable reduction in the miles travelled on regional business.
The number of employees is approximately 280 full-time equivalents, including 45 working part time and approximately 20 temporary staff covering maternity leave, etc.
The majority of employees are located at our headquarters, Panda House, where we have 221 full-time employees. Scotland is the second largest office with 19 employees.
We have decided that WWF-UK should aim to be certified to ISO14001, the internationally recognised environmental standard. Work has started on this project and we have commissioned a review from an expert consultancy to analyse what needs to be done to turn our existing EMS into one that will enable us to be certified in due course to the standard.
The first stage audit is due to be conducted on existing documentation in the near future. It is hoped that it will prove possible to achieve ISO14001 by the end of the next financial year.
Target for FY08
For WWF-UK to achieve ISO14001 certification by 30 June 2008.
Overall results
WWF-UK's efforts to reduce our inevitable environmental footprint have been successful in most areas. There have been some notable successes and also some underachievements, but overall the results are good and we are taking steps to address areas where we have not reached our targets.
Where possible we measure our impact in terms of CO2 emissions. Using that as a measure of our performance, this year we emitted a total of 559 tonnes of CO2, a significant improvement over the 800 tonnes we produced in FY06.
This figure was composed of 399 tonnes from all travel activities and the balance of 160 tonnes came from our energy consumption. This improvement is partly explained by sourcing 100% renewable wind-generated electricity since January, as can be seen in the section covering electricity consumption.