General Article DWP Estates outlines sustainability plans

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This article sets out DWP’s carbon and water sustainability plans to 2025.

DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) Estates has published its carbon and water sustainability plans for the next 3 years in line with the government’s greening commitments (GGCs). This will be reviewed once the new GGCs are published in 2025.

As a response to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), individual government departments must publish their plans on cutting emissions targets and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

DWP Estates has already put in place a large range of activities, strategy measures and policy changes in order to meet the 2024 to 2025 Greening Government Commitment and longer-term targets. These touch on almost every area of DWP Estates, which has a mission to be smaller, better and greener

DWP’s GGC climate targets for 2021 to 2025 are as follows:

reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 45% from a 2017 to 2018 baseline and reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions from estate and ope...

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