Aalborg Commitments |
Kirklees Council has recently signed up to the Aalborg Commitments - a set of principles that help the
council create targets and objectives which ensure local sustainable development. These principles
will help us in areas such as: decision-making, effective management, promoting health and well-being,
protect nature, reduce waste and sustainable transport and links directly to the Kirklees Environment
Vision 2025.
For more information please contact Kirklees Council Environment Unit on
01484 223568 or email
environment.unit@kirklees.gov.uk.
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Kirklees Environment Vision 2025 |
Kirklees Council have developed an environment vision, which details our
commitments to combat climate change and protect our local environment, including commitments to
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, raising the environmental standards of buildings and developing a
network of cycleways, footpaths and open spaces.
For more information please contact Kirklees Council Environment Unit on
01484 223568 or email
environment.unit@kirklees.gov.uk.
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Environment Policy |
Kirklees Council acknowledges and recognises that its operations have an impact on the local and
global environment. We are committed to the maintenance of an environmental management system to
manage our environmental impacts, prevent pollution, and to continuously improve our environmental
performance.
As part of this commitment, we regularly update our Environment Policy to reflect the council's significant environmental effects and to aid our implementation of EMAS - our Environmental Management System.
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Environmental Statement |
Kirklees Council gained EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme) in all council services in November 2003
and has maintained this standard in this reporting period.
A 3 phase external verification cycle was established in March 2004 with a certification body. This
process checks the council's compliance with the EMAS Regulation (EC) NO 76/2001 and validates the
information in the Environmental Statement.
The EMAS Regulation requires a full Environmental Statement to be published every 3 years. This was
produced in 2005 hence this document is only an interim statement highlighting the council's main
environmental achievements in this reporting period. Emphasis is given to the new environmental
management system (EMS) performance indicators which report on achievements against corporate
environmental objectives and targets.
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Environmental Purchasing Policy |
If the council is to demonstrate good environmental management, we have to make sure that the goods and
services we buy cause as little harm to the environment as possible.
Purchasing decisions can have a profound effect on the environment. Manufacture and transportation of
products uses valuable resources and pollutes our land, air and water. Goods consume energy and water
during their manufacture and many consume further energy and water when in use. The goods themselves,
their by-products and their packaging eventually have to be disposed of as waste.
This revised Environmental Purchasing Policy will help the council fulfil its environmental
responsibilities and will in turn help to influence our suppliers, so that we can justifiably claim
that we are "greening our supply chain".
Anyone who makes purchases or procures services on behalf of the Council MUST follow the Environmental
Policy.
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