How is the DCSF promoting its sustainable schools policy?
‘Mainstreaming sustainable schools’ refers to the DCSF’s work in communicating its sustainable schools programme. The DCSF is initiating a communications programme focusing on sustainable schools, which includes the publication of a summary report as well as a film designed to inspire and stimulate debate, Sustainability Matters. See: Communicating sustainable schools See also: The DCSF approachSchools and carbon emissions • Carbon offsetting – The practice of reducing carbon emissions in one location (for example, tree planting in the developing world) to balance the production of carbon emissions in another. • Zero-carbon school building – A school building with a zero-carbon footprint in its operation (that is, not including the embodied carbon emissions in its building fabric). • Carbon neutral school – A school with a zero net carbon footprint (that is, the use of offsetting is permitted). • Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)– A carbon-trading scheme for medium-sized organisations
