Climate Ambassadors

Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.

Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors

Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.

Enable your staff and learners to travel sustainably

Motivate your community to use active travel. You can do this through incentives, and by introducing infrastructure like bike racks or EV charging. Create a long-term travel plan.

Identify interventions to reduce your travel-related carbon hotspots

Use the results of your regular travel survey, along with your carbon footprint calculation, to understand which travel habits create the most significant contribution to your setting's carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.

Repeat action

Assess opportunities to implement on-site sustainable travel solutions

Look at your current site and identify ways in which you can support your community to use sustainable travel. It can be helpful to use the results of your travel survey to prioritise focus areas.

One off action

Develop a long term sustainable travel plan

Plan a set of actions that will promote and facilitate sustainable and active travel over time. To inform the development of the travel plan, use the information collected through your regular travel survey, as well as your assessment of any on-site sustainable travel solutions.

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Develop sustainable travel incentives for staff

Look at how you can encourage your staff to use sustainable travel to and from your setting, with rewards or benefits for choosing to walk, cycle, use public transport, electric vehicles or carpool.

Low costLong term action

Develop sustainable travel incentives for your learners

Look at how you can support your learners to use sustainable and active travel to and from your setting, with rewards or benefits for choosing to walk, cycle, use public transport or carpool.

Low costRepeat action

Use your travel survey results in your curriculum

Identify ways to use the information you collect through your regular travel survey in your teaching. It can be helpful to use your curriculum audit to decide which topics are best suited to the use of this data, although it can be integrated into most subjects.

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