We all have a part to play in reducing carbon emissions
We’ve created The Great Collaboration Toolkit to help you identify how you can reduce your emissions. We’ve identified over 60 different actions you can take. We have assessed them by their cost and level of carbon reduction. These actions make up the Toolkit, which features options suitable for all individual circumstances. For instance, once you’ve chosen the actions you’d like to take, we’ll help support you with ideas and information that will allow you to successfully reduce your carbon emissions.
There is wholesale agreement that humans are having a catastrophic negative impact on the planet. The gov.uk website states that climate change is happening and is due to human activity, this includes global warming and greater risk of flooding, droughts and heat waves.
Alongside this we are facing huge losses in animal and plant species both in the UK and across the globe.
Many national governments have signed up to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions which scientists agree are causing these problems, and many county and parish councils have declared “Climate and Ecological Emergencies”.
As individuals, businesses, organisations and communities there are many ways in which we can take actions in support of these local and national commitments. By using the Toolkit you can be part of the solution reducing carbon emissions.
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What's in the Toolkit?
We’ve researched more than 60 different carbon reducing actions, grouped into categories, and rated them by cost and carbon impact. There are actions suitable for all individual circumstances. You’ll find them all waiting for you in the Toolkit.
Buildings
Transport
Food & waste
Land use
Energy
Money
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Why is a local approach so important?
Much climate policy is driven by a top-down, national approach. It doesn’t take into account regional differences around the country. By using The Great Collaboration Toolkit you are part of a bottom-up, local initiative that provides detailed, local information to allow local policy to be directed at the specific needs of local communities. In other words, you’re helping get the right actions to happen in the place that you live.
How to get started
Open the Toolkit and browse through the various sections.
When you come across an action you’ve already done, tell us by clicking Already Done.
When you come across an action you can’t do, or don’t want to do, click Not For Now and tell us a little about why.
Try to find half a dozen actions that interest you, and click Commit to say you’ll take that action within the next 12 months.
There are lots of actions to choose from. Each one shows the likely cost (FREE, £, ££, £££, ££££) and the potential emissions reduction (CO₂↓, CO₂↓↓, CO₂↓↓↓).
