It's now easier than ever for Surrey residents to purchase solar panels. The Solar Together scheme allows locals to group-buy panels and battery storage. Over six years, it has helped to install 17,000 solar panels. Households need only to register online, then they will be emailed a personal recommendation for a solar panel supplier. As the suppliers are pre-approved and in competition with one another, it's a safer and cheaper method of reducing households' carbon emissions and cutting down on energy bills.

by Jane Wallace-Jones, Teacher of Geography and Sustainability Lead.

Young people today face huge challenges: a cost-of-living crisis, climate anxiety, pressure to succeed in high-stakes exams and the after-effects of covid. The pupils at George Abbot are facing these challenges head-on through a series of exciting initiatives to improve sustainability in their school and wider community.

In this article, Commission Core Group member Paul Street explains what consumption-based Scope 3 emissions are.

The term ‘Scope 3 emissions’ ’first appeared in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, by World Resources Institute, back in 2001. It is actively used in mandatory carbon accounting/reporting and assessing the carbon impact a company is having.

Scope 1 emissions: This covers the GHG emissions that a company makes DIRECTLY, for example from the fuel to run vehicles or fuel combusted at the site in order to heat the building.