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Thant Myanmar

"Organization guide"

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Steps

Activities

1. Pre-assessment

2. Calculating office carbon footprint

3. Implementation

steps to reduce carbon

    • Observation
    • Analysis of their EC policy
    • General Meetings with the org’s management team (manager, admin, or HR)
    • Awareness raising with all staff
    • Forming the green club
    • Action planning to be a green office

Assess the data and information

Discussion with the management for CO2 result

Implementation steps to reduce carbon

Follow up and recalculate the carbon

4. Implementation

steps to reduce carbon

    • Monitoring & Evaluation

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STEP -1

Pre-assessment

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Objective:

    • To know the current organization’s environmental situation
    • To know the current environmental policy

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Who:

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    • Management team, admin, or HR and cleaner

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Activity

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    • Looking around the organization’s place, ( office rooms, meeting rooms, kitchen & toilet)
    • Asking some questions relating to their environmental action to the staffs.

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Time:

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    • Half Day (Before starting the training date)

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Material:

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STEP - 2 Calculating Office Carbon Footprint

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Timeline

3 or 4 month

Assess the data and information to calculate the carbon footprint

Discussion with the management team depends on the carbon footprint result

Implementation steps to reduce carbon (Including awareness)

Follow up and recalculate the carbon

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Carbon Footprint per year

Energy

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Travel

Waste

Procurement

Food

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Food

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STEP - 3

Implementation Step to reduce carbon

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Objective:

    • To change behavior
    • To be sustainable the green practice
    • To adapt to the new green practice in the office

Who:

    • All departments and staff should include

Main activity:

    • Awareness raising with staff
    • Forming the club & and setting a green team (who want to participate or select with the voting system)
    • Action planning to be green practice (i.e. create a plastic ban and charge a small fee or assign community work if someone brings plastics to the office.)
    • Requesting a vote from the staff after finishing the action plan.
    • Monitoring & evaluation
    • Taking action

Time :

    • 1 or 2 days (for small organizations)
    • Depend on the staff’s available time

Material:

    • -

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GREEN TEAM: Set a green team and assign leaders for each category

IN OFFICE

MEETING & CONFERENCE

ON THE GO

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Members -

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KICKOFF: Create an event to announce the green team

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CATEGORY

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CHANGE LIST

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DEPARTMENT & PERSON

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ACTION

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ENERGY

Switch to Renewable Energy:

  • solar and battery are now easily and cheaply accessible

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Turn Off Lights and Equipment:

  • Encourage employees to turn off lights and equipment when not in use.

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Manage Office Equipment:

  • Ensure that office computers, printers, and copiers are set to go into sleep or "power-saving" mode when not in use.

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Natural Light Utilization:

  • Utilize natural light by opening doors and curtains during the day.

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Use Natural Ventilation:

  • Open windows and doors to allow fresh air to circulate through the office.
  • Ceiling fans or portable fans can help distribute cool air more effectively than aircon.
  • Air con temp set to 25DegCel, or on fan mode

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CATEGORY

CHANGE LIST

DEPARTMENT & PERSON

ACTION

Travel

Use Public Transportation:

  • Opts for buses, subways, trams, and trains when commuting.
  • We will take the bus when the travel time is under 1 hr. (but it depends on the urgent cases.)

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Biking and Walking:

  • Use a bicycle or walk for short trips or commuting if it's safe and convenient.

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EV adoption:

  • EVs become more common and easy to access, consider them for city only cars, inclusive of wallboxes for charging

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CATEGORY

CHANGE LIST

DEPARTMENT & PERSON

ACTION

Procurement

Purchasing Eco-friendly, local and circular:

  • Buy eco-friendly products for office supply
  • Buy high quality refurbished instead of low quality new:
    • IT: Laptops, printers, phones
    • Furniture
  • When planning an event or meeting, opt for eco-friendly hotels and restaurants.
  • Require trainings to:
    • support local suppliers (food, snacks). THis reduces waste and provides for local livelihood
    • Use projector with battery rather the generator

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CATEGORY

CHANGE LIST

DEPARTMENT & PERSON

ACTION

WASTE

PLASTIC FREE DRINKS

    • Hand-made fresh juice instead of soft drinks
    • Milk tea or Ovaltine bottles instead of coffee mix
    • Water in jars/glasses
    • Replace coffee, tea, sugar, and snacks sachets with containers

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PLASTIC FREE SNACKS

    • Samosas, local snacks, fruits, dry fruits, or groundnuts instead of packaged snacks

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STATIONARY

    • Reduce/reuse printing paper
    • Reduce sticky notes as they are not recyclable
    • Use more pencils instead of pens
    • Use washable crayons instead of plastic markers

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PLASTIC FREE SNACKS/MEALS

    • Request the caterers to bring food in reusable containers (steel lunch box, big pot)
    • Ask for reusable plates, cups, cutlery

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CATEGORY

CHANGE LIST

DEPARTMENT & PERSON

ACTION

Food

Meatless one or two days per week (vegetarians can reduce 1.5 tons CO2 per year than meat eaters)

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