SEPA joins One in Five Challenge

5 November, 09

SEPA has signed up to the WWF - One in Five Challenge, which is to cut one in five business flights within five years.

Campbell Gemmell, Chief Executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), said:

I’m delighted that we have signed up to the WWF One in Five Challenge. As Scotland's environmental watchdog we must and want to set a good example, but it’s not always easy! Our offices have a wide geographic spread across Scotland and we only own a few of them. Our staff also need to travel, often to inaccessible places to do their jobs – inspecting sites, visiting customers, monitoring the environment. We have already made big reductions in our air travel within mainland Britain using quite simple measures like making more use of trains and of phone and video conferencing. We will continue to embrace new ideas and technologies that enable us (and others) to reduce climate damaging CO₂ emissions.

What I like about the WWF challenge is its ambition. By signing up we want to show that not only are we aware of our environmental footprint, we are actively seeking to reduce it.

• Visit the WWF website for more information on the One in Five Challenge (external site)
• Download WWF’s - One in Five Challenge leaflet

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