Atmospheric Impacts

Our carbon footprint

Our footprint to date is summarised below:

	2009	2010
Total Footprint (tCO2) – absolute figures	251,646	243,631

Carbon policy

We have developed a carbon policy which sets the overall strategic direction and goals of our approach to CO2 emissions and assigns specific actions for each business area. Our policy is to reduce the direct impact of our operations on climate change.

Carbon reduction strategy

We have developed a carbon reduction strategy to help us achieve the 15% carbon reduction target by 2011 against a 2010 baseline in the UK and Middle East and 10% reduction against 2010 baseline in Canada. The strategy will focus on tackling key areas of reduction such as:

• Business mileage

• Commercial vehicles

• Plant fuel oil

• Energy for offices

These four components amount to around 90% of our current measured direct carbon emissions.

Energy consumption targets

Since 2004 we have been buying 100% Climate Change Levy (CCL) exempt green energy for Carillion head office premises. This comes from renewable sources and is exempt of CCL charges.

The remainder of sites on the central group contract (i.e. Carillion owned sites) use good quality CHP. Our target is to include any new sites added to our property portfolio to use good quality CHP and energy for head office locations will be procured from a 100% green tariff.

Carillion Fleet Management

The size and composition of our fleet fluctuates from year to year. In spite of this ever changing baseline we continue to reduce the CO2 emissions in our car fleet, through:

-	Changes to the models of cars available to employees and highlighting the CO2 rating of each car
-	Providing video conferencing facilities and focusing on reducing business mileage
-	Increasing the numbers of diesel and hybrid vehicles in our fleet
-	Smarter driving techniques