EPA carbon footprint continues to shrink

 

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) cut its carbon emissions by 62 percent last financial year (July 2020-June 2021) compared with the previous year.

Toitū carbonreduce certified the figures, which were also 82 percent lower than the EPA’s base year total (2017/18).

In July 2018, the EPA signed up to the environmental certification programme with Toitū Envirocare (previously Enviro-Mark Solutions) to measure, manage, and minimise our environmental impacts.

Through the Toitū carbonreduce programme, the EPA is working towards three of the requirements of the Government’s new Carbon Neutral Government Programme:

• measure, verify and report our organisations’ emissions annually
• gross emissions reductions targets and longer-term reduction plans for the next decade, and
• introduce a phased work programme to reduce our organisations’ emissions.

The Carbon Neutral Government Programme requires the public sector to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025.

Find out more about Toitū carbonreduce certification - Toitū Envirocare website