Anchor Environmental Sustainability & Net Zero Carbon Strategy 2023 – 2026
Mitigating our Environmental Impact Locally and globally, we all depend on the delicate balance of the natural environment. Under carbon-driven climate change, as well as misuse of natural resources, the ecology on which we all depend is at risk. Anchor’s business operations and residents’ homes make a significant ecological impact on our environment and our strategic aim is to seek to understand, mitigate, and – as much as possible – make a positive impact on the environment wherever we work. Under this strategic theme, we will be developing our understanding and exploring impact reduction as well as the positive impacts we can make in each of the following areas of ecological and environmental impact: Waste Water Pollution We are committed to meeting UK and international requirements and targets in each of these areas. Our strategic objectives are as follows. Objectives • Reduce water use and waste. • Increase biodiversity & green spaces, • Increase and support the use of sustainable transport. • Design our locations to mitigate environmental impacts and support biodiversity. • Improve how we design, retrofit and manage care homes to reduce water use, pollution and waste, and increase biodiversity and use of green spaces. • Ethical and responsible procurement of services minimising environmental impacts. • Reduce office waste and water use, explore sustainable technology options and office consumables and increase sustainable travel. Anchor undertook a SHIFT assessment in 2019 which explored and recommended the following measures and targets. The next stage of developing science-based targets across the organisation’s work will be to conduct a further SHIFT analysis, using the more recent and detailed baseline assessment provided by the carbon footprint measurements taken in late 2022 as well as the work carried out under the Sustainable Reporting Standard for Social Housing for which Anchor is entering its third set of data in 2022-23. We will update our SHIFT assessment in 2023/24 and further refine our data, goals, targets and initiatives in support of these objectives. Indicative measures could include the following. Some of these, for example, diversion from landfill, are already embedded in our operations:
Biodiversity & Green Space
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