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Reap Petite - The community footprint calculator
REAP petite is a software tool developed by SEI-Y to help communities calculate their ecological or carbon footprint and test the effectiveness of a number of footprint reducing pledges.
Footprint tools have previously been developed for businesses, schools, regional governments and local authorities. There are also a number of individual footprint calculators available on-line. At present, there are no footprint calculators designed specifically for use with cimmunity groups. REAP-petite fills this gap.
REAP petite is designed to be used by a community or with a community. Schools or voluntary groups might use the tool themselves as part of their environmental activities. It could be used to support campaigning, fund-raising, awareness raising, engaging with the local council or simply as an exercise in itself. It can also be used by local government or charity groups to support engagement with communities and more importantly to collect 'bottom-up' data on consumption activities. REAP petite can also function to support the targeting of policies and to assess their importance.
REAP petite can measure actual footprint improvement within a community by simply resurveying the community at a later time to see the impacts of change.
REAP Petite has been updated and improved.
To download a free copy click here
If you are a license holder, contact SEI to get your new version.
SEI have just released a policy brief on Scotland's Footprint.
Our study has shown that Scotland's carbon footprint has grown by 11 per cent since 1992.
The figure includes greenhouse gases released overseas during the production of goods later consumed in Scotland and so is the most accurate gauge of the country's emissions to date.
While emissions generated in Scotland fell by 13 percent between 1995 and 2004, when trade is taken account, greenhouse gases rose by 11 per cent over the same period.
The full policy brief can be found on SEI's website.
An article has also be published in the Sunday Herald and can be found here.
The NHS England successfully launched their Carbon Reduction Strategy ‘Saving Carbon, Improving Health' on 27th January 2009. SEI contributed to the evidence base for the strategy, carrying out a consumption-based carbon footprint of the NHS England, who represents 25% of England's public sector emissions. The first part of the project examined historical emissions and identified the drivers behind a rising carbon footprint. This forms the first report published in 2008. The second phase of the project projects future emissions and models a range of policy options and their carbon reduction potential.
Further information can be found at the NHS Sustainable Development Unit website
Our phase 1 report for the NHS England carbon analysis project is available online.
This report provides a 2004 baseline for the NHS, a time series and a supply chain analysis of the pharmaceutical and medical equipment sectors (the highest impact procurement sectors of the NHS England).
We are in the process of developing a carbon scenario tool to contribute to the NHS England Carbon Strategy and target setting. The deadline for this is January and another report will be issued. We are also looking into repeating the study for the NHS Scotland, Wales and NI.