ENGLAND
The government wants to make every new school building in England zero carbon from 2016.
The Children's Plan, published last December, set out the government's long-term ambition for all new school buildings to produce no carbon emissions at all from their day-to-day use within eight years. The government has also given local authorities a duty to reduce car use on the school run.
The government is also ploughing £110m into installing what it claims is cutting-edge carbon-reduction and renewable-energy technology in more than 200 secondary schools undergoing major refurbishment over the next three years.
SCOTLAND
Scotland has not yet set a zero carbon target for new school buildings but it has pledged to reduce the country's carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. Scotland recently launched a £18.8m Climate Challenge Fund to help organisations, such as schools, colleges, universities, local authorities and housing partnerships, take local action to tackle the global threat of climate change. These organisations can apply for funding for innovative projects to help reduce their carbon footprint.
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