The Project The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) operates 260 posts in 145 countries. The FCO has a commitment to operate on a sustainable basis, driven by three key imperatives: ? A need to demonstrate visible international leadership to support the UK’s high-level policy priority of promoting a ‘low carbon, high growth’ global economy around the world; ? To fulfil a pledge by the Foreign Secretary to be carbon neutral by 2012; and ? Execute a programme of “greening the FCO” to promote sustainability and reduce costs. However, a review had demonstrated that the FCO was performing poorly against its UK domestic targets for sustainable operations, and the FCO knew that the level in overseas posts varied greatly. So it approached the Carbon Trust for support in impr

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