Employee awareness campaigns 

How to engage your employees in carbon reduction

Employee engagement in energy efficiency and carbon reduction can help change behaviour in the workplace, to reduce unnecessary energy consumption and cut your organisation's carbon emissions. Find out how:
Guide to creating an awareness campaign (PDF)

Case studies

See how organisations have worked with us to engage their staff in carbon reduction initiatives and to instill responsibility for carbon saving at all levels:

• Case study: Energy awareness campaigns at Loughborough University
  Loughborough University's staff engagement programme, part of its Carbon Management Plan, has achieved stellar results, gaining a 5% reduction on site energy consumption in its first year.
• Video: Employee engagement at Cornwall College
  Malcolm Palin, Corporate Estate Manager, describes how we have helped engage their academic staff, resulting in cost savings and a visible change in behaviour toward climate change.
• Video: Staff involvement at Liverpool PCT
  Dave Artrobus, Non-Executive Director, Liverpool PCT (Primary Care Trust), explains how the Carbon Trust has facilitated staff involvement and how this has been critical in creating engagement with other PCTs.
• Videos: Can your employees help your business be low carbon?
  Videos from our breakfast briefing, discussing employee engagement in carbon reduction among three large organisations: Aviva, Lloyds Banking Group and Reed Global.

Awareness raising materials

Download our awareness raising materials to help your employees save energy for your business:

• Employee awareness posters and stickers
• Thermometer
• Staff awareness leaflet (PDF)

Our material is available free of charge in limited quantities or can be purchased from our publications order line.

Targeting behaviour change

Find out which areas of energy use to target in your organisation with carbon saving advice specific to your business sector, including energy walk around checklists.