Partnership to support net zero schools

A partnership between Net Zero Buildings and Points4Plan, an app to support schools’ sustainability efforts for their 2025 Climate Action Plan, can support schools with the move towards a net zero education estate.

Points4Planet tracks activity using a school’s data, which allows staff and students to understand their carbon footprint to be able to make real changes. So far, over 20 schools nationwide have used Points4Planet to deliver tangible changes.

Students and staff can also earn Planet Influence Points through sustainable initiatives, such as installing EV charging points or encouraging pupils to walk where possible. These points can later influence projects partnered by organisations such as Greggs and Travis Perkins.

Net Zero Buildings is the first construction partner to support this scheme, and provides schools with insights into how they can decarbonise their estates. Through offering advice and support via the app, this partnership will enable schools to make long-term positive changes that will benefit students, staff and wider communities as well as the environment.

Hannah Gains, national education manager at Net Zero Buildings, said: “With climate action firmly on the agenda and net zero targets moving ever closer, many schools face a schallenging year as they seek to make sustainability a core focus.

“Through our partnership with Points4Planet, alongside our expertise in creating net zero in operation buildings, we want to inspire positive change in the education sector, by showing schools and pupils just how much impact they can make for the environment.”