Environmental Management System (EMS)
The natural environment provides bankmecu with the resources required to carry out day-to-day operations. Minimising bankmecu’s impact on the environment will help to ensure the Company’s sustainability by reducing operating costs and placing less strain on finite natural resources.
In 2010/11, bankmecu put in place an Environmental Management System (EMS) to monitor aspects of bankmecu’s operations with an environmental impact and to put in place an action plan for continual environmental performance improvement.
bankmecu’s Environment Policy outlines bankmecu’s major impacts on the environment and articulates the Company’s approach to managing operational impacts in relation to waste, energy, travel, water, land, procurement and partnerships.
Key environmental objectives include:
- To use energy more efficiently;
- To use water more efficiently;
- To reduce the amount of waste produced and increase the quantity of waste re-used and recycled;
- To reduce the environmental impacts of travel;
- To consider environmental issues through procurement activities;
- To consider environmental issues associated with products and services offered to customers;
- To consider environmental issues when new partnerships are formed;
- To increase environmental awareness amongst customers and employees; and
- To become carbon neutral by 30 June 2011.
Targets have been established and action items identified with clear responsibility to continually monitor and improve performance against bankmecu’s objectives. bankmecu will report against these targets next year.
Targets include:
- Reduce carbon emissions per FTE by 10% by 2014/15 relative to 2009/10 levels.
- Offset all Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 30 June 2011.
- Endeavour to add at least one new Scope 3 emission source per year for the following 3 years.
- Increase energy efficiency per m² by 5% by 2014/15 relative to 2009/10 levels.
- Reduce carbon emissions from road vehicles used for bankmecu administrative operations per FTE by 5% by 2014/15, relative to 2009/2010 levels.
- Reduce water consumption per FTE by 5% at bankmecu by 2014/15, relative to 2009/10 levels
- Reduce waste production by 5% by 2014/15, relative to 2009/2010 levels.
- Increase recycling figures by 5% of waste production by 2014/15, relative to 2009/2010.
- To increase the proportion of products and services used by customers with an environmental or social benefit by 10% in 2014/15, relative to 2009/10.
- All new partnerships to be assessed against environmental and social criteria by June 2012.
- Increase the number of members who read the ‘what you can do’ pages by 5% in 2014/15 relative to 2009/10.
- Increase the number of members who open bankmecu’s e-newsletter Interact by 5% in 2014/15 relative to 2009/10.