REAP Workshops
Part of a REAP software license agreement usually involves a package of days of support from the REAP team. If the organisation purchasing the software has not used the tool before, part of the support days package will involve a training session for potential users and interested parties.
Logistics
REAP workshops usually take place at the offices of the organisation purchasing the tool and take up a whole day. Training sessions work most effectively with between 10 and 30 participants and each person either has their own computer or is sharing with one other person.
The day's session comprises presentations on the concept of footprinting and application to policy, with a number of interactive sessions where participants learn how to use the REAP tool to extract information and assess the impact of policy on the area's carbon, greenhouse gas and ecological footprint.
Other types of training
The team has also adapted workshop material for lectures on Sustainability and Environmental Footprinting and practical sessions using the REAP tool for the Environment Department's undergraduate and masters courses and the Social Work and Social Policy department's undergraduate course at the University of York.
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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.