Emission Reducation Planning

Emission Reducation Planning

Summary

Women Want Adventure acknowledges and respects the customs, traditions and knowledge of Aboriginal people and their unique relationship with the land, waterways and sea. We recognise our shared responsibility to Care for Country by addressing the causes of climate change that will impact on present and future generations and our environment from our adventures and interactions with environment.

Our goals include:

Develop a low carbon footprint for all trips
Celebrate adventure without the emissions
Limited to zero carbon transport to and from trips
Reduce emissions from waste

	Topic/Area	Emissions Reduction Actions	Staff Role Responsible	Monitoring Process
Energy Efficiency	Buildings
	Equipment	Install energy efficient equipment and renewable energy technology in our office	Monique Farmer	Yearly
	Lighting	Choose natural light from windows instead of turning on the lights in the office	Monique Farmer	Yearly
Travel / Transport	Vehicles / transportation	Promote walking, cycling and public transport options to staff for commuting and business travel.	All Team	Per Trip
	Employee travel to work initiatives.	Promote walking, cycling and public transport options to staff for commuting and business travel.	All Team	Per Trip
	Client / Customer travel initiatives	Ensure vehicle leasing and purchase arrangements support efforts to increase vehicles that use zero carbon technology. Promote the use of car share and organize online networking’s group for women to share the ride to and from trips. Promote the use of public transport to trip starting locations.	All Team	Per Trip
	Suppliers
	Green purchasing policy and initiatives	Continue to survey, monitor and report the use of transport fuel and require transparent reporting of transport-related emissions from suppliers and contractors.	All Team	Per Trip
	Efficient Product Packaging (recyclable, minimal cooling etc.)	Continue to promote waste avoidance, diversion from landfill and recycling through staff and community engagement programs.	All Team
	In-house
	Office / Admin initiatives	Continue to promote waste avoidance, diversion from landfill and recycling through. Print advertising materials on recycled paper	Monique Farmer	Yearly
Carbon Offsetting	Buy carbon offsets	Purchasing carbon offsets for flights for all clients and team members	All clients and Team	Per Trip

Waste Management

Waste	What is it? Where does it come from?	Management, Recycling and Disposal	Reduction Strategies	Role & Staff Member Responsible	Monitoring
Organic Waste	e.g. Food scraps. Kitchen/cooking waste. Human Waste	Disposed of daily as compost to be used on garden. Only groups allowed to go to the bathroom in the pit toilet or one designated area.	Increased care to cook quantity of food appropriate to guest numbers. Dig a group hole that can be managed on overnight trips to reduce using multiple places for human waste	All members on team	Applies to every trip including day, weekend and multi-day trips
Paper	Paper from office documents including wavier forms and old risk assessments. Paper waste from advertising materials made	Recycle all paper in the recycle bins	Only print what is needed	Monique Farmer	Weekly
Plastic	Plastic bags, plastic from food containers	Put soft plastic in the recycle bins outside supermarkets.	Limit all soft plastic on trips. We aim to not use plastic at ALL besides a plastic bag for rubbish items and scraps	All members on team	Each trip

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