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Supported by the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts and Creative Carbon Scotland and with media partnership from The List, this high-profile award rewards those shows making significant efforts to become the most sustainable of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

All shows addressing any range of sustainability themes in their content or production are welcome to apply. To be considered for the award, a company must complete a questionnaire about their artistic and production choices, with long-listed productions being judged during the August festival.

As well as long-listed productions being highlighted digitally and in print festival editions of The List, all will be invited to the award ceremony at Fringe Central on 28 August, and the winner will receive a feature in the CSPA’s Arts’ Quarterly Magazine.

How to Apply

To apply for the award, please complete this short, online application form by 24th Jul 2015.

To find out more about the award, click here, or visit the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts website.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Over the past five months, Creative Carbon Scotland has been presenting a programme of workshops and meetings on how regularly funded organisations should record and report carbon emissions to Creative Scotland when submitting their annual report. Our conversations with training participants have underlined that the arts in Scotland encompass a wide variety of art forms in a wide variety of locations, ranging from dense city centres to the smallest villages. The accommodation required to support these activities could be as small as a home office or as large as a multi-arts venue which might encompass a theatre, cinema, gallery, workshops, café and tenanted offices.

One of the most significant contributions to the carbon footprint of an organisation will be the energy used to heat and light their buildings, offices, studios and workshops and we would expect to be able to calculate emissions by looking at meter readings and bills to see how much fuel has been used. So far so straightforward – but what do you report when, as a tenant, you don’t actually see any meter readings or pay any bills?

Everyone needs heat and light so who is responsible for emissions?

Many of the organisations we have spoken with during training sessions have raised this question. Who is responsible for reporting on emissions from energy used in their accommodation when this is part of their rent and they have no way of seeing meter readings or bills? Sometimes (but not always) both the landlord and the tenant receive funding from Creative Scotland and both are expected to record and report emissions. For tenants it might seem only reasonable to ignore this contribution to their overall emissions as it simply can’t be quantified (and this is the approach taken for Creative Scotland’s annual reporting) but many tenants are aware that this leaves them with an incomplete picture of their environmental impacts.

Why do we need to know what emissions your rented space produces?

As we have progressed through our series of meetings with over 100 organisation in recent months, it has emerged that the majority of those organisations use rented accommodation. Tenancy conditions vary a great deal. For some, users are responsible for paying all bills but have no opportunity to make changes to the building; others are responsible for all repairs; for others, fuel bills are included in the rent and there is no information available on costs and no opportunity to affect usage. Within this complicated mix, it is clear that a significant number of organisations are unable to fully report on their total carbon footprint. Taking a more global view, in terms of the whole arts sector in Scotland, we would like to fill the gap and answer the question: “How significant is energy use in rented spaces?”

How can we work together towards a better understanding?

Our time and financial resources are fairly limited but we have the enormous privilege of being connected with a large number of arts organisations and landlords who are actively engaged in environmental sustainability. Using this resource of goodwill we are proposing to carry out some research with both landlords and tenants to attempt to answer this question.

We are not in a position to implement exhaustive research but one of our main objectives is to help tenants and landlords become more aware of what conditions within a building affect the behaviour of building users and how this in turn can affect energy use. We also hope we will be able to help tenants to understand how emissions associated with their accommodation fit in with their overall carbon footprint by allowing us to provide a typical energy use for their spaces. Experience shows that this can lead to more efficient use of the building by helping users become more carbon aware and by enabling building owners to recognise worthwhile efficiency improvements to the building (e.g. better lighting or heating controls or improvements to windows and insulation). Any reductions in fuel use have the potential to reduce overall costs and emissions with benefits for tenants, landlords and the sector as a whole.

How can tenants and landlords help fill this gap in knowledge?

We are proposing to spend some time assessing a small number of tenanted spaces including asking some of the occupants to fill in questionnaires on how they use the building with one of our advisers. We will need a small amount of information and time from the landlord and permission to spend some time making some basic measurements within the building. If you would like to be included in these conversations, please get in touch with Fiona, our Carbon Reduction Project Manager at fiona.maclennan@creativecarbonscotland.com

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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In the past five months, we’ve engaged with approximately 100 of Creative Scotland’s Regularly Funded Organisations on topics of carbon emissions recording, reporting and environmental policies. Through our training programme, we have offered support for RFOs to fulfill the mandatory carbon emissions reporting requirement set by Creative Scotland, which will come into effect for the period of April 2015 – March 2016.

Below are some of the most frequently asked questions from RFOs about the requirements of Creative Scotland’s carbon emissions reporting process.

Will we be judged on the level of emissions reported to Creative Scotland? 

No. We don’t yet understand the level of emissions which result from carrying out your activities. That’s one of the reasons we are asking everyone to report emissions.

What do we have to include in the report? 

We are asking organisations to look at their activities and to record waste (landfill and recycling), utility use (building energy and water) and travel (for business) and calculate emissions from those. Creative Scotland’s reporting form is in preparation and will be made available shortly to help you understand what you will be expected to report.

What level of emissions is good/bad? 

We think that you are more likely to know the answer to that question than we are. After you have recorded and reported your emissions for a year or so you will be able to recognise whether you can achieve reductions. We will try to provide examples of best practice so that you can make your own assessment.

How do we calculate emissions? 

For most emissions sources we can provide emission factors. A simple multiplication will allow you to calculate kg of CO2e (carbon dioxide emissions) from kWh of electricity or cubic meters of water, for example.  We expect to supply this in the form of a simple spreadsheet.

We recommend that you create an account with our ClaimExpenses tool to calculate emissions for travel, as this can be more complex.

Are we supposed to reduce emissions each year? 

We expect that once you begin recording your emissions, you will start to recognise ways in which you can become more efficient, but we also recognise that your activities may change from year to year so that actual reductions or increases may not be a useful measure of improving efficiency.

Will we be given targets?

We will not be in a position to give organisations targets in terms of amounts of emissions. Instead we have been developing tailored action plans which encourage Regularly Funded Organisations to set their own targets for adoption of an environmental policy and for having a system of recording in place in time for the 2015-16 annual report to Creative Scotland.

Do you have more questions about carbon recording and reporting? Feel free to get in touch with Fiona MacLennan, Carbon Reduction Project Manager, via email or by calling us at 0131 529 7909.

Image: Flickr/Wee Sen Goh

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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This past April, Creative Carbon Scotland hosted Green Tease gatherings in Edinburgh and Glasgow to discuss the possibility of an ArtCOP in Scotland which engages with the global climate change negotiations taking place in Paris this winter.

What is ArtCOP Scotland?

ArtCOP Scotland would provide a local response in Scotland to the UN Conference of Parties (COP21), which will happen this coming December in Paris. The COP21 meeting will bring together the world’s leaders to engage in crucial climate change negotiations. ArtCOP21 is a parallel event taking place in Paris in December where artists will use their work to raise awareness of the issues and encourage the leaders to take bold steps to protect the environment and humanity.

Following the active engagement, passion and motivation demonstrated by all who were involved with Glasgow’s Green: Imagining a Sustainable City, as well as the on-going interest in the Green Tease programme, we believe that an ArtCOP Scotland could provide an exciting collective milestone for the arts and sustainability Community Of Practice (or our very own “COP”) in Scotland. ArtCOP Scotland will make use of the opportunity of COP21 to think about what roles arts and culture can play in addressing sustainability and climate change in Scotland. What we’d love is for every city, town and village in Scotland to have some form of cultural response or engagement with sustainability or climate change through grassroots and community-led activity in November and December 2015.

At our first ArtCOP Scotland Green Tease meeting this past April, we asked the groups if ArtCOP Scotland would be of interest and the right direction for this community of practice to pursue, what form it might take, and what Creative Carbon Scotland’s role should be in helping to make it happen.

What do we hope to achieve?

We were very happy to receive an encouraging response, with many of the artists, venues and organisations represented at Green Tease pledging their involvement. We came away with some useful ideas on how to move forward and shape our ambitions.

Our first aim is to support lots of activity as stated above which gets people of all ages and interests involved in the project:

• Encourage regularly occurring events that have an established audience to plan green-themed programming
• Involve educational institutions and student groups: students and researchers at ECA and GSA both have strong interests in sustainability
• Engage venues: an opportunity for greater staff engagement and green challenge between visiting companies
• Harness the power of media: using social media to generate buzz, referencing other big media campaigns involved with similar topics

Our second aim is to support the development of high quality, innovative artistic work which engages with this area. We want to encourage artists to explore how they can make work in order to shift or influence our wider culture and the way we live.

How do we make this happen?

Creative Carbon Scotland’s role has been clarified through these gatherings, as it is clear that we will be responsible for organising, promoting and creating a hub for the ArtCOP Scotland activity. This may include an ArtCOP Scotland webpage, where participants can interact with each other and find inspiration in what others are doing. We will be setting the challenge or inviting participation from a range of creative practitioners, arts venues, community organisations and youth groups. It is clear that the invitation to participate should encourage experimentation and a variety of approaches, which in turn will show the diversity of ideas about arts and sustainability that Scotland’s cultural sector has to offer.

Our April Green Tease gatherings were full of energy and important contributions to the development of ArtCOP Scotland. We will be gathering our own resources and thoughts over the next couple weeks, launching ArtCOP Scotland in the near future. If you have further ideas about how this event could take place, share them with us on Twitter @CCScotland, or come along to our next Green Tease events on 25 May (Edinburgh) and 26 May (Glasgow).

Image: Flickr Creative Commons/Matthew Bradley

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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What is the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme?

In December 2014 we launched our Carbon Recording and Reporting workshop and training programme, which delivered guidance to arts organisations across Scotland about recording, understanding and ultimately reducing carbon emissions generated by their activities. The training programme was specifically aimed to support Creative Scotland’s Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) in working towards the mandatory carbon emissions reporting requirement, which will come into effect for the period of April 2015 – March 2016. As part of their annual reporting in 2016, all regularly funded organisations will be required to complete a report on their environmental performance. They will be expected to develop an environmental policy and to calculate their annual carbon footprint for inclusion in the report.

The focus at this stage is very much on helping organisations develop systems for recording their emissions and impact. Experience has shown that reductions tend to emerge from the processes of policy development and efficient recording.

Creative Carbon Scotland’s training activities are designed to support the environmental aims of Creative Scotland, which include:

• Set annual reporting requirements for organisations
• Set expectations for sustainable behaviour
• Produce annual report on sector environmental impact
• Tell positive stories about sustainable behaviour
• Share good practice and case studies
• Help the Arts influence the wider public

What have we learnt from the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme? 

We have now held 15 workshops throughout Scotland and our carbon reduction advisers have met with around 100 organisations to discuss and develop their individual action plans for recording and reporting emissions. These meetings also helped identify and communicate each organisation’s specific actions towards recording emissions data and included any carbon reduction ambitions. Through this process, we have found that most organisations are making substantial efforts to operate sustainably but this is often informal and at a grass roots level. The introduction of mandatory carbon reporting has encouraged more engagement at a management level.

Many organisations are very small and have very few permanent staff; several training participants who were new to the concept of recording emissions raised concerns about the amount of extra time and effort that would be involved in recording the information needed for reporting. For most, the need to change existing systems would involve additional effort, which they felt might not be available. At the same time, we have come across many examples of good practice and excellent ideas already existing within the cultural sector that we hope to share.

For the organisations that had already developed an environmental policy and an established habit of recording data, all reported having benefited from the improved understanding and control that these standards brought to the operations of their organisation. From discussions held during our training sessions, it was clear that the process of change for organisations was evolutionary and worked best when existing processes were improved. The benefits that came about ranged from discovering malfunctioning heating controls to improved organisation of tours – both of which led to substantial cost reductions for the organisations involved.

What is next for the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme?

We are in the process of reviewing reports from adviser meetings to identify common themes, difficulties, and good practice. Discussions during workshops and reports resulting from the adviser meetings have already highlighted some areas of uncertainty on how to realistically reflect activities. We hope to develop guidance on how to report on some of the less clear cut impacts such as fuel use by tenants, recording volunteer travel and further apportioning of shared activities.

For the near future, we are hoping to provide an improved reporting form that will incorporate a standard emissions calculation step. This will enable reporting organisations to see the relative carbon impacts of different emissions sources more easily and with more confidence.

We will soon be updating our Training web resources to include further documentation of the ideas discussed during training workshops and adviser meetings. A variety of resources have already been published on our website, including Creating and Developing Your Environmental Policy,  Guide to Tackling Waste, Guide to Measuring Audience Travel and numerous Case Studies of best-practice examples. We have now also published a Frequently Asked Questions blog post following our winter training programme to help address some common questions about this process.

Be sure to check our News section, Twitter and Facebook for future updates on carbon reporting resources, training and workshops, as we will be publishing a series of reflections and updates on this process through the month of May.

Read our next post in this series, Carbon Reporting for Creative Scotland RFOs: Frequently Asked Questions.

Image: Flickr Creative Commons- PhotoHannah

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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What is the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme?

In December 2014 we launched our Carbon Recording and Reporting workshop and training programme, which delivered guidance to arts organisations across Scotland about recording, understanding and ultimately reducing carbon emissions generated by their activities. The training programme was specifically aimed to support Creative Scotland’s Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) in working towards the mandatory carbon emissions reporting requirement, which will come into effect for the period of April 2015 – March 2016. As part of their annual reporting in 2016, all organisations will be required to complete a report on their environmental performance. They will be expected to develop an environmental policy and to calculate their annual carbon footprint for inclusion in the report.

The focus at this stage is very much on helping organisations develop systems for recording their emissions and impact. Experience has shown that reductions tend to emerge from the processes of policy development and efficient recording.

Creative Carbon Scotland’s training activities are designed to support the environmental aims of Creative Scotland, which include:

• Set annual reporting requirements for organisations
• Set expectations for sustainable behaviour
• Produce annual report on sector environmental impact
• Tell positive stories about sustainable behaviour
• Share good practice and case studies
• Help the Arts influence the wider public

What have we learnt from the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme? 

We have now held 15 workshops throughout Scotland and our carbon reduction advisers have met with around 100 organisations to discuss and develop their individual action plans for recording and reporting emissions. These meetings also helped identify and communicate each organisation’s specific actions towards recording emissions data and included any carbon reduction ambitions. Through this process, we have found that most organisations are making substantial efforts to operate sustainably but this is often informal and at a grass roots level. The introduction of mandatory carbon reporting has encouraged more engagement at a management level.

Many organisations are very small and have very few permanent staff; several training participants who were new to the concept of recording emissions raised concerns about the amount of extra time and effort that would be involved in recording the information needed for reporting. For most, the need to change existing systems would involve additional effort, which they felt might not be available. At the same time, we have come across many examples of good practice and excellent ideas already existing within the cultural sector that we hope to share.

For the organisations that had already developed an environmental policy and an established habit of recording data, all reported having benefited from the improved understanding and control that these standards brought to the operations of their organisation. From discussions held during our training sessions, it was clear that the process of change for organisations was evolutionary and worked best when existing processes were improved. The benefits that came about ranged from discovering malfunctioning heating controls to improved organisation of tours – both of which led to substantial cost reductions for the organisations involved.

What is next for the Carbon Recording and Reporting training programme?

We are in the process of reviewing reports from adviser meetings to identify common themes, difficulties, and good practice. Discussions during workshops and reports resulting from the adviser meetings have already highlighted some areas of uncertainty on how to realistically reflect activities. We hope to develop guidance on how to report on some of the less clear cut impacts such as fuel use by tenants, recording volunteer travel and further apportioning of shared activities.

For the near future, we are hoping to provide an improved reporting form that will incorporate a standard emissions calculation step. This will enable reporting organisations to see the relative carbon impacts of different emissions sources more easily and with more confidence.

We will soon be updating our Training web resources to include further documentation of the ideas discussed during training workshops and adviser meetings, including a Frequently Asked Question section for a convenient and simple reference to use during the recording and reporting process. A variety of resources have already been published on our website, including Creating and Developing Your Environmental Policy,  Guide to Tackling Waste, Guide to Measuring Audience Travel and numerous Case Studies of best-practice examples.

Be sure to check our News section, Twitter and Facebook for future updates on carbon reporting resources, training and workshops, as we will be publishing a series of reflections and updates on this process through the month of May.

Image: Flickr Creative Commons- PhotoHannah

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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This opportunity comes from the Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation with a deadline of Monday 25 May 2015 at 12:00.

The Arts Project Manager will develop and deliver art and greenspace design provision for Phases One and Two of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Redevelopment.

Primary tasks include:

• Input into the design process for any capital elements with an arts purpose.
• Deliver prioritised arts and greenspace design projects for Phase One, outlining budgets, timelines and briefs.
• Identify/ recruit, appoint and manage artists and designers to develop and deliver selected projects.
• Identify potential sources of match funding and submit applications for the programme.
• Work with project partners to deliver selected projects.
• Development of a strategic framework of arts projects for Phase Two of redevelopment in consultation with project partners.

The project manager will be directed by the REH Redevelopment Arts Steering Group. Collaboration with NHS Lothian staff including existing site managers, site redevelopment project team and clinical staff, GreenSpace|ArtSpace Public Social Partnership, contractors, artists/ designers and arts/ greenspace organisations will be a central to the role.

To receive the full contract brief please contact:
Susan Grant, Arts Manager| Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation
www.elhf.co.uk/about-us/contributing-to-arts-and-heritage/

Please note: Standard working week Monday – Thursday.

Location: Edinburgh City

For further information, please contact susan.grant@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk (Susan Grant, Arts Manager), or call 0131 465 5471, or visit http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/OurOrganisation/PropertyDevelopments/CurrentProjects/

The deadline is Monday 25 May 2015 at 12:00.

Image: Elevated Wetlands by artist Noel Harding, Flickr Creative Commons/Postbear

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Ben Twist was presented with the Low Carbon Pioneer Award from the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) at their Low Carbon Innovation Awards last Wednesday, 29th April 2015.

The awards come at the end of a four-year Low Carbon Innovation (LCI) project that supported Scottish SMEs in developing low carbon products and services. Funded by ERDF, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University, the LCI has fortified ECCI’s role as a hub for sustainable innovation.

The project, running from May 2011 to May 2015, had a total investment of £1,567,797, engaging with 1,400 SMEs and supporting over 500 of these enterprises (including Creative Carbon Scotland), alongside 50 networks and 51 in-depth projects. 200 new products or services were created through this process, which exceeded the original target set by the LCI by 200%.

The winners of the Low Carbon Innovation Awards have contributed to enterprises in the following four categories:

• Most Innovative Product – Sunamp
• Most Innovative Service – Scene Consulting
• Low Carbon Pioneer Award – Ben Twist, Creative Carbon Scotland
• Contribution to a Low Carbon Economy Group Award – Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group

Duncan Wall, Environment Manager for Diageo, presented Ben Twist with the Low Carbon Pioneer Award. Wall said: “We are very pleased to sponsor these awards and proud to have supported the ECCI through their work supporting SMEs in Scotland helping to transform the low carbon landscape. As a business we innovate on carbon reduction and welcome the opportunity to support others and share our experiences.”

More information about the LCI can be found at ECCI’s website.

Image: Ben Twist, founder Creative Carbon Scotland, presented by Duncan Wall, Diageo, Environment Manager

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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