Sustainability Report 2009/10

Notes

1. Since our commitment to carbon neutrality was made, the voluntary carbon reporting guidelines published by DEFRA have been revised. DEFRA's long-standing advice that electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar should be assumed to give rise to zero CO₂ emissions has changed. This change creates a significant negative impact on our business case for investment in renewable/zero-carbon technology, eliminating the incentive to purchase renewable electricity at a premium. We believe that generating and purchasing renewable electricity can make an important contribution to reducing our CO₂ emissions and that industry can play an important part in stimulating the generation of the UK renewables industry. For this reason, we are reporting our carbon emissions this year against our commitment as we originally set it out.
2. The data above are MAG's total CO₂ emissions as covered by our Carbon Neutral Commitment. This includes Scope 1 (oil, gas, and vehicle fuel), Scope 2 (electricity with green tariff treated as zero CO₂ as outlined in our original commitment) and some Scope 3 (electricity, heating oil, and fuel supplied to third-party tenants).

* Figures given for waste recycled reflect the weight of waste sent to recycling plants, although some of this may not eventually be recycled, due to the possibility of contamination.

Bournemouth and Humberside airports monitor noise but not flight tracks.

* Manchester figures are for night flights; East Midlands figures are for all flights.

These figures are annual means for Manchester south site.

RIDDOR stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations. The regulations stipulate the most serious types of incidents, which must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive.