The RSPB works to save birds and other wildlife here in the UK and abroad. Nature is in trouble and we recognise that this is largely due to the rate at which we’re using up resources.
The RSPB works to save birds and other wildlife here in the UK and abroad. Nature is in crisis, and we recognise that this is largely due to how we manage our environmental impact.
The RSPB is committed to being a nature positive organisation and moving towards having a net climate cooling impact. We’ve had a greening programme since the 1990s and now have a corporate environmental management system (EMS). Under the acronym LARK, we have pulled together the key pillars of our climate change response to enable more holistic and cohesive action planning.
We report our annual greenhouse gas footprint and key greening achievements in the RSPB’s Annual Report each year (see page 63). We also produce a short annual environmental report that sets out the RSPB’s significant progress against our environmental management system (Green Dragon).
Download and read our Environmental Policy, which sets out our main commitments such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions from our business and land operations, maintaining our recycling rate and tackling plastic use, and ensuring our purchasing of products meets our nature protection standards.
Our policy also commits us to preparing our reserves and operations for future climatic change; you can find the RSPB’s Climate Change Adaptation Report prepared for DEFRA here.
As well as embedding good environmental practice across our business operations, the RSPB have committed to do the same within our extensive science and research activities. We have signed the Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice. As a concordat signatory, we recognise the need to change how we conduct research and innovation as well as promote wider solutions. We also agree to take shared action now and in the future to reduce and eliminate our own negative environmental impacts and emissions and achieve the transition to sustainable practices.
