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Big strides to protect our future
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A great many individuals, not to mention businesses and other organisations, have thrown their weight behind Eco-Active projects. Now the States are formally introducing a programme which will involve all departments in an environmental drive inspired by the campaign.
Called Eco-Active States, the drive will require departments to change the way they work so that they reduce energy and water consumption by ten per cent and reduce staff travel by 15 per cent. There will also be guidelines for the reduction of material waste, recycling and using environmentally sustainable goods and services.
In environmental terms, the new commitment should pay dividends. In addition, limiting the use of resources, reducing waste and buying sustainable materials should produce significant cost savings. There is a further dimension to the new set of initiatives: the States are setting an example and it is likely to encourage ordinary Islanders to pay even greater attention to Eco-Active and its goals.
That said, it is legitimate to wonder why it has taken the government so long to sign up formally to the scheme, which actually emerged from an idea promoted by Environment and the Minister for Environment, Senator Freddie Cohen.
It is possible that there was reticence because it was prudent to wait until the scheme had proved its worth beyond all doubt. Although various elements of the administration have supported Eco-Active in various ways since its inception, this year might well have been judged the appropriate time for the States as a whole to join what is now, without question, a worthwhile and successful enterprise.
Sceptics continue to say that the jury is still very much out as far as global warming and other climate change phenomena are concerned. Some also say that, in the grand scheme of things, Jersey’s contributions to sustainability and to the reduction of global carbon emissions will always be minimal.
The truth is that we actually have a great deal to gain by minimising all sorts of wasteful behaviour in the private and public sectors. We also have much to gain by being able to hold our heads up and say that we are playing our full part environmentally among the community of nations.
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