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Dear WCA Member / Local Expert,
One of the key themes for WCA in the next year is to increase our activity in the area of ‘Business Engagement’.
The main assumption being made here is that the act of ‘doing business’ is responsible for a major proportion of climate emissions and environmental impacts across the county. (or country or planet!).
See below for Wiltshire Emissions (from WC Climate Strategy)
Please circulate this event to any groups you belong to. Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/events/653206045756333/ .
We're keen to get as many people as possible working to get businesses engaged in dealing with the climate and ecological emergencies.
Our Business Engagement Working Group, lead by Keith Freegard from Malmesbury, would like to ask for a few minutes of your time and ‘local expert’ knowledge to tell us about some of the larger organisations located or operating within your area, whom you think will have significant impacts on the environment.
We have created a simple data submission form on the WCA website where you can quickly enter the businesses or other organisations that you judge to be ‘big hitters’ in terms of carbon footprint or other detrimental impacts on the planet. The link to make each submission is at https://www.wiltshireclimatealliance.org.uk/businessengagement .
We would also be interested in hearing about organisations who are setting a good example of taking positive and proactive approaches to reducing the impact of their business activities in order to create a more sustainable economy for the future.
Once we have created a ‘long list’ of Wiltshire firms, then we can begin the major task of analysing their impacts and sustainability policies, with the aim of producing a comparison report on ‘Wiltshire’s Largest Carbon Footprint Businesses’ ( sic.) and then start actively engaging with those organisation to drive a more rapid transition to a circular economy with close-to-zero impact.
If any of you would like to get more involved in the activities of the Business Engagement working group, there is a need for effort and input on the ‘Research and Analysis’ work theme to start assessing and evaluating the relative impacts of identified organisations, based upon published information.
We particularly need people who would be happy to carry out desktop research on various companies identified.
We plan to create a standardised set of guidelines and ‘key questions’ about how best to do this analysis, but that methodology is also ‘under development’ at this early stage in the large programme of work.
To find out more about the workplan there is a copy of the Business Engagement Strategy available to view at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-IfRBlaZ1ETQ2wDCkMOFTa9pw2JvR8hB/edit#slide=id.p1 .
Also. please go to our website at https://www.wiltshireclimatealliance.org.uk/event-details/business-engagement-topic-group to register to attend the first Topic Group meeting on 30th March at 7:00pm.
Alternatively, join our meeting on the night. Link at the start of this mail
If you can't attend, please simply drop me a line to explain ‘what and how’ if you want to contribute to the huge task as described above!
Many thanks in advance
Keith Freegard
Malmesbury, Wilts, UK
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