CRed stands for the
Community Carbon Reduction Project (new window)
which was established by the University of East Anglia in 2004.
CRed Suffolk was set up in December 2005 and is a partnership of
local authorities, businesses, schools and other organisations,
working together to help communities and businesses tackle climate
change.
The CRed Suffolk partnership provides information and advice to
help identify easy, everyday energy savings, as well as how to
adapt to a changing climate, via the
CRed
Suffolk website (new window) and the Suffolk Climate Change and
Energy Helpline on 0800 0288 938.
Sign-up to the CRed 60% Challenge
If you sign-up to the CRed 60% Challenge on the
CRed
Suffolk website (new window) you can record and track your
personal energy saving pledges.
The CRed 60% Challenge aims to reduce the number of hot air
balloons of CO2 we produce per person, per year, from five to two
by 2025. As each individual is responsible for around 9,000 kilos
of carbon emissions a year, this means saving 5,400 kilos per
person.
Carbon footprint for Suffolk
In 2007 CRed Suffolk published the first ever carbon footprint
for Suffolk. Carbon footprinting is a method of representing the
impact human beings have on their environment and is expressed as
an equivalent amount of CO2 that we emit in our day-to-day
lives.
Calculating a carbon footprint for Suffolk on a regular basis
will help identify principal sources of greenhouse emissions and
help identify local issues and prioritise where resources and
projects should be targeted.
The Suffolk carbon footprint report showed that the amount of
CO2 per individual ranged, on average, from 5.8 tonnes to 9.0
tonnes depending on which part of the county you live
in.