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To: Norwich City Football Club
Make Norwich City FC a Zero Carbon Club
Norwich City FC: Put in place an Environmental Management System to 1) identify your impacts on the environment and 2) Significantly improve environmental performance by implementing measures to reduce and offset carbon emissions, as well as improving biodiversity.
Why is this important?
Businesses must acknowledge and act on their responsibility to society to reduce carbon emissions. Not only is this a moral imperative, committing to environmental sustainability will result in global coverage for the club, reaching a new level of support among climate activists worldwide.
Forest Green Rovers, owned by Ecotricity founder Dale Vince, are currently the only club in European football to have committed to EMAS - the gold standard for environmental performance. To achieve this the club have implemented measures such as:
• Installing solar PV along stadium roofs, kicking out 45 kW capacity.
• Converting to an organic pitch, partly irrigated by collected rain water, with no use of pesticides or manmade chemicals.
• Introducing an e-ticket service to reduce paper use and need to travel to the ground to collect tickets.
• Improving biodiversity by growing bee attracting plants.
• Switching to low energy floodlighting
• Taking red meat off menus and working to the principles of local, seasonal, fresh and organic food wherever possible (Meat based diets are acknowledged as one of the major contributors to global emissions, using up vast amounts of water, land and energy per kg of food produced in comparison to vegetarian and vegan diets.).
Let's take our club to the Premier League of Environmental Sustainability by committing to EMAS and becoming a zero carbon club.
Forest Green Rovers, owned by Ecotricity founder Dale Vince, are currently the only club in European football to have committed to EMAS - the gold standard for environmental performance. To achieve this the club have implemented measures such as:
• Installing solar PV along stadium roofs, kicking out 45 kW capacity.
• Converting to an organic pitch, partly irrigated by collected rain water, with no use of pesticides or manmade chemicals.
• Introducing an e-ticket service to reduce paper use and need to travel to the ground to collect tickets.
• Improving biodiversity by growing bee attracting plants.
• Switching to low energy floodlighting
• Taking red meat off menus and working to the principles of local, seasonal, fresh and organic food wherever possible (Meat based diets are acknowledged as one of the major contributors to global emissions, using up vast amounts of water, land and energy per kg of food produced in comparison to vegetarian and vegan diets.).
Let's take our club to the Premier League of Environmental Sustainability by committing to EMAS and becoming a zero carbon club.
