Scottish Water's journey to net zero
- 3 years ago
How is one of Scotland largest employers rising to the challenge of net zero?
It is one of Scotland’s largest employers with over 3,600 employees on its books and services 2.46 million households across the country while its operation supplies 1.34 billion litres of drinking water each day.
We spoke to Gordon Reid, General Manager Zero Emissions at Scottish Water, in our Sustainable Scotland podcast, about his organisation’s journey to net zero and the lessons learned so far.
The podcast also heard from David Reay who is the Executive Director at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute at the University of Edinburgh about how best to effect change within organisations.
Gordon said: “We are already seeing the impact of climate change on rainfall patterns which can lead to greater risk of drought but also intense rainfall which can lead to flooding.
“We developed a 25 year strategy for the business where delivering net zero emissions is one of our three key ambitions.
“We are applying United Nations guidelines on reaching net zero and are working to decarbonise our activities as much as possible then sustainably sequestering those emissions that we cannot reduce”
It is one of Scotland’s largest employers with over 3,600 employees on its books and services 2.46 million households across the country while its operation supplies 1.34 billion litres of drinking water each day.
We spoke to Gordon Reid, General Manager Zero Emissions at Scottish Water, in our Sustainable Scotland podcast, about his organisation’s journey to net zero and the lessons learned so far.
The podcast also heard from David Reay who is the Executive Director at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute at the University of Edinburgh about how best to effect change within organisations.
Gordon said: “We are already seeing the impact of climate change on rainfall patterns which can lead to greater risk of drought but also intense rainfall which can lead to flooding.
“We developed a 25 year strategy for the business where delivering net zero emissions is one of our three key ambitions.
“We are applying United Nations guidelines on reaching net zero and are working to decarbonise our activities as much as possible then sustainably sequestering those emissions that we cannot reduce”