Environmental Management Systems
All Government departments now have environmental management systems (EMS) to reduce the environmental impacts from office-based energy, water, transport fuel and paper consumption and waste disposal.
Results on meeting related targets are reported annually in departmental annual reports.
For a snapshot of overall government achievements on environmental performance for 2006/07, click here.
To read about examples of specific achievements in 2006/07 for water, waste, energy and on sustainable buildings, see the below case studies.

