Environmental Objectives 2010
Number	Objective	Comments
1	The Company will develop an environmental policy that shows its commitments to sustaining the environment. This will be reviewed at MRM on a yearly basis.	Completed
2	The Company will identify its environmental aspects and impacts and prioritise these activities in accordance with business needs.	Completed
3	The company will produce a yearly Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability document detailing its performance in accordance with series three of the Global Reporting initiatives (GRI).	Completed
4	The Company will audit its environmental activities in accordance with its Audit Plan which will be set against resource availability and business priorities.	Ongoing
5	The Company will analyse and evaluate its waste targets where it has full responsibility for the process and report on a quarterly basis to MRM.	Ongoing

Table 1: Energy Audit - 2010
Region	Electricity kWh	Gas kWh
Welwyn Garden City	49211	N/A
Glasgow	9355	N/A
Manchester	62316	N/A
East Kilbride (vacated May 2010)	16404	N/A
Leeds Warehouse Seacroft (vacated July 2010)	1252	N/A
Wakefield (vacated July 2010)	48535	N/A
Leeds Morley	22555	N/A
Bristol	12303	N/A
Godalming	199304	N/A
Hamilton	30605	N/A
Daventry	138253	N/A
Leeds Armley Rd (vacated Aug 2010)	1934	N/A

Table 2: Fuel used for Fleet Transport 2010
Fuel	Litres
Petrol	39143
Diesel	606555
LPG	57

*Note: Fuel used includes purchases using company fuel cards by employees for their own vehicles being used for business use.

Table3: Converting fuel types to CO2
Fuel type	Amount used	Units	X	Kg CO2 per unit	Total kg CO2
Grid Electricity	592007	kWh	X	0.5023	297365
Diesel	606555	litres	X	2.672	1620715
Petrol	39143	litres	X	2.322	90890
LPG	57	litres	X	1.492	85
Aggregate total emissions from energy use					2009055

Source: Based on 2010 Guidelines to Defra / DECC's GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting

Table 4: Kg CO2 To Tonnes of CO2
	CO2	Conv	Tonnes
Scope 1 and 2 (direct emissions)
Electricity	297356	/ 1000	297.4
Diesel	1620715	/ 1000	1620.7
Petrol	90890	/ 1000	90.8
LPG	85	/ 1000	0.1
Total			2009
Scope 3 (Indirect emissions)
Air Travel	82534	/1000	82.5
Rail Travel	22821	/1000	22.8
Taxi Travel	5336	/1000	5.3
Ferry Travel	312	/1000	0.3
Total			111

Table 1 shows the carbon footprint for Europa over the last seven years of measurement

Table 2 shows the carbon footprint since 2004 normalised against Europa’s staff count in order to remove the differences caused by company growth.

Table 3 shows the carbon footprint since 2004 normalised against Europa’s turnover in order to remove the differences caused by company growth.

Our Carbon emissions increased in 2010 from 563t to 2009t as the business has grown and developed new service offerings. With the acquisition of Operon and Nationwide Technical Services in 2010 Europa has increased its building portfolio and increased staff numbers and the mobile peripatetic managers and technical service operatives performing national operational and reactive services.

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