Green Impact Universities Introductory Session 11 February 2011.
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Your environmental impacts• Surroundings in which an organisation
operates• Includes air, water, land, national resources,
flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation• Surroundings in this context extend from
within an organisation to the global system
A significant environmental aspect is an environmental aspect which has or can have a significant environmental impact
Environmental Aspect• any element of an
organisation’s activities, products or services, that can interact with the environment.
Environmental impact• any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisations activities, products or services
GENERAL CONSIDERATION• Direct or indirect• Real or perceived• Occur under normal operating conditions• Occur under abnormal operating conditions• Due to accident• Due to incident (eg vandalism)• Due to past (or future) activities
Exercise1. Brain storm your activities2. What environmental aspects are associated
with these?3. What are the environmental impacts of this?4. Identify the significance of each impact:
• Intensity• Likelihood
Help throughout the year• James Dixon-Gough –Sustainable Development
Officer – j.dixon-gough@leeds.ac.uk– 0113 343 5793
• Charlotte Bonner – Green Impact Project Manager– cbonner@nussl.co.uk – 07818 592575
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