Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
A Guide to the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme for UK Local Government (A Manual for Environmental Management in Local Government)

Description of the tool
The scheme sets out a systematic process and set of tools for thinking about, undertaking and monitoring environmental actitivies. This is not only a guide to the formal Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, but it is also a guide to the general framework of environmental management in local government.
Part of the purpose of the scheme is to provide an incentive for local authorities to improve their environmental management practices by offering them the opportunity to be externally ‘validated’. Authorities complying with the scheme’s requirements will be able to publicise this through the use of a special ‘statement of participation’ and ‘graphic’.

Specific topic
Environmental management in local government

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

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1

1

1

0

1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

0

0

0

0

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