Taking Action
The first thing you need to do is spread the message within school and get everyone on board. How you do this will depend on your school. You might want to put up a display in reception, go into assemblies or hold an event to tell people about the project and what they can do to help. Make sure senior management and governors are kept informed too.
Reduce your school’s carbon footprint
Compensate your partner school
Looking Beyond the Calculations
It is important to explore the reasons for the difference in the size of your footprints.
A good starting point is to look at an average day in each school. What are the similarities and differences? Maybe you have photos or video from your partner school to demonstrate this, or a teacher or student who has visited the school. Why not produce a short film or photo story of a typical school day focusing on energy usage to share with your partner school?
What can we learn from each other?
Resources
Act On CO2

There are loads of ways you can reduce your CO2 emissions – here are 21 for starters from the government’s Act On CO2 website!
Lots of them are things that can be done at home like insulating your house and not wasting food so get parents involved too!