Location
Europe
Company size
1289
Industry
Target
English Heritage commits to becoming Net Zero by 2040 from a 2021/2022 baseline year.
English Heritage is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection in England. It oversees over 400 historic monuments, buildings, and sites, including Stonehenge, Dover Castle, and Hadrian's Wall. The charity, which employs approximately 2,300 people, operates primarily in England. It does not have any prominent subsidiaries. English Heritage's main responsibilities include managing and maintaining historic sites, providing public access, and conducting research and conservation work.
• Develop a low carbon travel policy covering business travel, commuting and object travel with a target of reducing the staff travel carbon footprint by 15% by 2025 (from 19/20 baseline).
• Identify opportunities and work with partners to enable visitors to access our sites in a low carbon way, developing the infrastructure, signage, digital access and incentives required, proactively improving data to set travel emissions reduction targets and a clear plan for delivery by 2023.
Reduce our building carbon emissions by 20% in the next three years through a large scale programme of investment in energy efficiency and renewable technology at our highest carbon emitting sites.
Recycling, waste reduction and re-use:
• Establish monitoring for all waste produced and set clear targets for avoidance, reduction, reuse and recycling.
• Reduce waste from exhibitions, projects and events, taking a whole-life cost approach and developing toolkits to guide decision making.
• Invest in compost facilities for all green waste on garden sites.
• Complete removal of single-use plastics, increase refill take-up and radically reduce packaging across the organisation with a focus on our commercial activities.
• Create a system for sharing equipment and materials across our sites.
• Support the use of the sustainability scorecard, developing tools to help staff secure and manage environmentally committed suppliers, including enhanced engagement with ten suppliers a year to improve performance.
• Transition by 2025 to 80% of our large suppliers having publicly committed to, and be working towards, a net zero climate science-aligned target and action plan.
Understand our water consumption and identify priorities for investment, setting targets to increase water efficiency.
