Scotland’s Global Footprint is a partnership between WWF Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and North Lanarkshire Councils for a three year project which is due to end in trunning to June 2007 will:
- Measure the footprint of each local authority area
- Develop a software tool for policy-making
- Develop a strategy and projects to reduce the footprint
- Produce education materials for schools to measure a whole school footprint
The project explores some of the top examples of sustainable living and working and ‘footprint’ different policy options for each area. What will achieve the greatest footprint reduction – an increase in recycling rates, or improved energy efficiency? What can the council do to achieve change? Where is the biggest bang for the buck? The footprint analysis will be based on the most up to date local data available, providing the best analysis of environmental impact to date.
The North East Global Footprint Project
- The North East global footprint project is a partnership between Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and WWF Scotland to investigate how much nature we are consuming compared with what is available. Both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils have made a commitment towards evidence based policy decisions by adopting the global footprint tool. Officers within both councils have worked collaboratively to develop future scenarios in built environment/energy and transport and these have been footprinted to illustrate the benefits of global footprint in assessing future policy decisions.The North East global footprint project is a partnership between Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and WWF Scotland to investigate how much nature we are consuming compared with what is available. Both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils have made a commitment towards evidence based policy decisions by adopting the global footprint tool. Officers within both councils have worked collaboratively to develop future scenarios in built environment/energy and transport and these have been footprinted to illustrate the benefits of global footprint in assessing future policy decisions.The project has developed relationships with external organisations and communities. The project is currently involved with Aberdeen Forward Ltd REAL food project, which looks to promote and improve the access to local produced foods. Two communities within Aberdeenshire are about to use global footprint to help reduce their impact on the environment and become more sustainable.
The project is now producing the North East’s global footprint reduction strategy, which looks to incorporate global footprinting into policy and strategy decisions expected in February 2007.
