Climate Neutral School
Hampton School is the first school in the world to move towards Climate Neutrality. Working with Climate Care, one of the leading companies in the field, the school has taken steps to offset all the emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases produced by the daily running of the school site, by the flights and bus journeys involved in all School trips, and by the coaches which bring over half of Hampton pupils to school each day. Climate Care is offsetting all of these through a portfolio of projects including the provision of renewable energy and energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa and India, and forest restoration in Uganda. The climate-neutrality scheme was formally launched by Vince Cable MP, the Liberal Democrat economic spokesman.
In developing the climate neutral scheme, the school has also undertaken student-led "waste audits" designed to reduce greenhouse gases like methane and carbon, and is currently working with environmental architects to create a state-of-the-art "sustainable laboratory" within its Biology Department. Other projects, developed alongside Climate Care, involve building energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa and India. The school has also added solar panels and a wind turbine..
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