It's now easier than ever for Surrey residents to purchase solar panels. The Solar Together scheme allows locals to group-buy panels and battery storage. Over six years, it has helped to install 17,000 solar panels. Households need only to register online, then they will be emailed a personal recommendation for a solar panel supplier. As the suppliers are pre-approved and in competition with one another, it's a safer and cheaper method of reducing households' carbon emissions and cutting down on energy bills.

by Jane Wallace-Jones, Teacher of Geography and Sustainability Lead.

Young people today face huge challenges: a cost-of-living crisis, climate anxiety, pressure to succeed in high-stakes exams and the after-effects of covid. The pupils at George Abbot are facing these challenges head-on through a series of exciting initiatives to improve sustainability in their school and wider community.

In this article, Commission Core Group member Paul Street explains what consumption-based Scope 3 emissions are.

The term ‘Scope 3 emissions’ ’first appeared in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, by World Resources Institute, back in 2001. It is actively used in mandatory carbon accounting/reporting and assessing the carbon impact a company is having.

Scope 1 emissions: This covers the GHG emissions that a company makes DIRECTLY, for example from the fuel to run vehicles or fuel combusted at the site in order to heat the building.

With plant and animal biodiversity both in general decline, the nationwide Blue Campaign encourages community groups, councils and individuals to find suitable land where nature can take over once again. Surrey County Council has recently announced significant changes to the way it manages over 3,000 miles of Surrey's hedgerows, verges and roundabouts.