Our vision is to be the leading charity that encourages the public to become more environmentally sustainable. This will be achieved by providing accessible and stimulating information, uniting people's views and evoking the desire for positive change.

We take the approach of being:

• Practical and positive - it can be hard for people to tackle overwhelming environmental issues like climate change so we break them down into small steps that everyone can take, like unplugging mobile phone chargers when they're not being used.
• Measurable - we help people to see the difference they are making by measuring the resources saved as a result of their actions and those of their community. For example, just 63 households in our Nottingham EcoTeams programme have collectively saved a massive 7 tonnes from ending up on the rubbish mountain.
• Interactive - changing habits alone is difficult. Watch a team of businessmen build a teetering tower of paper in their corporate lobby, and you'll see what's different about Global Action Plan. By supporting groups of people working together, we make taking action easier, more creative and much more fun.
• Inclusive - everyone gets switched on by different things. Working with all kinds of individuals and organisations has enabled us to come up with a range of imaginative ways to communicate. Try riding our Energy Bike for a totally different way of making the connection between energy use and climate change.

Our internal environmental policy
Global Action Plan is committed to a role of environmental leadership by promoting environmental good practice at all levels - internally and externally. We will continually seek to minimise our negative impacts on the environment and those of our partners and clients.

We aim to:

• Minimise our consumption of resources and raw materials
• Reduce our output of rubbish
• Reduce our harmful emissions from transport and office energy consumption
• Use suppliers that are environmentally friendly
• Exercise a positive influence through our awareness-raising and behaviour change activities

We will do this by:

• Implementing an Environmental Management System compliant with BS8555 to monitor and measure our impact on the environment
• Complying with relevant environmental legislation
• Continuing to integrate environmental aims into the business planning process
• Running programmes that aim to reduce participants' impacts on the environment
• Ensuring all employees can demonstrate good environmental office practice
• Monitoring and reporting on our progress, with periodic reviews
• Setting targets for continual improvement