Advice and Support

Key websites providing advice and support on reducing carbon emissions include:

• The Carbon Trust, which helps organisations of all sizes to cut their energy bills and carbon emissions with practical advice, publications, interest-free loans and on-site surveys.
• The Energy Saving Trust provides a range of resources to help reduce carbon emissions.
• The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) promotes sustainability within universities and colleges in the UK.
• The Welsh Assembly Government's "Help Wales reduce its Carbon Footprint" website.
• Some suggestions on How to Reduce your Carbon Emissions by 10% from the Guardian newspaper.
• A list, provided by E.ON, of everyday activities and their energy costs ("Energy Menu").
• A Carbon Footprinting Tool provided by DirectGov (the UK government's digital service for people in England and Wales).
• Please see also our section Get Involved: How you can help reduce climate change.

Case Studies

• HE Case Studies available from the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) homepage
• Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral Project - aiming to be England's first carbon neutral village - have cut emissions by 21% since they started.

Scientific Research

• DEFRA Climate Change Information
• Climate Change - Global Dimming
• Sir David Attenborough: The truth about climate change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Reports
• Joint science academies’ statement: Global response to climate change

Recent Conferences

• High Education Environmental Performance Improvement SUSTE-IT Presentations
  Including Energy Efficient Configuration, Cooling & Power Supply in Data Centre, held at Cardiff 19 June 2008
• Towards Low Carbon ICT
  Wednesday 19th March, 2008 at the Said Business School, Oxford University.

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