The Environment Agency Signs on to 10:10 Campaign

The Environment Agency, the government’s environmental protection agency and watchdog, has joined a long list of supporters by endorsing the 10:10 campaign. The Agency plans to reduce mileage for its vehicles, curb energy use in their buildings and facilities, and begin to purchase more electricity from renewable sources, they announced.

The announcement comes in the wake of several industry leaders signing on to participate in the 10:10 campaign, which aims to reduce carbon emissions by 10 per cent by 2010. The scheme has so far been signed by 34,000 individuals, along with 1,225 businesses, 591 non profits, and 348 education facilities. 

Some of the more prominent companies to agree to reduce their emissions by 10 per cent by 2010 include Adidas, city councils of Reading and Watford, Sadler’s Wells Trust, and several hospitals. Gordon Brown and his entire governmental body signed on to the campaign shortly after it was launched by the Guardian at the beginning of September. 

The 10:10 campaign aims to demonstrate that, if enough people take individual action on combating climate change than it will put pressure on politicians and world leaders to begin aggressively making emission cuts.

Campaign manager, Daniel Vockins, said that the campaign is an opportunity for the experts to ‘walk the talk’, and that the Environmental Agency knows better than most that the time more discussing the issue is simply over, and action must be taken soon.

The Agency will outfit its main offices with voltage regulators to cut back on energy consumption by 15 per cent, as well as build wind turbines on its property in order to generate their own renewable energy source.