*For my part! I am Myles, one in every of Octopus Vitality’s Digital Advertising Dynamos. Learn on to search out out all concerning the superb inexperienced work that is helped Arsenal prime BBC Sport’s Premier League Sustainability Scores...
We are the official vitality provider of Arsenal FC.
We be sure they’re powered with 100% renewable vitality, from Emirates Stadium to the London Colney coaching grounds, and we have joined forces on a complete bunch of different cool inexperienced stuff, from planting bushes to trialling revolutionary inexperienced tech on the Emirates. Collectively we have saved over 10.7 million kilograms of CO2 (sufficient to fill a stadium 6.6 time over!)
November 2020: The Gunners lead in sporting sustainability as soon as once more, turning into the primary membership within the premier league to enroll to the United Nations’ Sports activities for Local weather Motion Framework!
This unimaginable initiative helps deliver the sports activities business according to the objectives of the Paris Settlement, and endeavours to maintain world heating under 2.0C by 2050, and we’re delighted, however not stunned, that Arsenal are the premier league first membership to signal… That’s as a result of Arsenal have lengthy been trailblazers, main the way in which within the battle for our planet, and we’ve been with them each step!
November 2020: Collectively, Octopus Vitality and Arsenal defender Hector donated 48,000 to One Tree Planted!
Earlier this yr, Hector Bellerin, elite defender of Arsenal and the Planet, pledged to plant a whopping 3,000 bushes for each sport the Gunners gained in June and July in a incredible inexperienced team-up with One Tree Planted.
And we have matched that, tree for tree!
With out additional ado, we’ll be planting the bushes in within the Amazon Rainforest to assist critically necessary ecosystems and native individuals who rely and know the forest, and who will assist with conservation and restoration.
Our bushes might be a part of the Section 2 of the Araguaia Biodiversity Hall in Brazil, and planting will begin in 2021. Total 200,000 bushes might be planted, so between our 24,000 and Hector’s 24,000, we’ve pledged practically 1 / 4 of the whole! The Araguaia Biodiversity Hall will turn out to be the longest of all nature corridors on Earth and is one in every of South America’s largest ever reforestation tasks. Its scope is astonishing, with a complete size of two,600 kilometres and a width of as much as 40 kilometres located alongside the riverbanks of the complete Araguaia river. It would join two of the world’s most necessary ecosystems: the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna.
Defending from the bottom up
We’re no strangers to tree planting. A number of years in the past, the United Nations Atmosphere Programme and World Well being Organisation fashioned their BreatheLife coalition to lift consciousness for the hazards of air air pollution. We determined to launch a nationwide tree planting marketing campaign to indicate our assist – and so far, have planted over 12,000 bushes in faculties and neighborhood areas across the UK. It began with a single tree, planted subsequent to Emirates Stadium by the Romford Pele himself.
Subsequent, we teamed up with Arsenal’s Double Membership to plant bushes at St Andrews Major Faculty with the assistance of Gunnersaurus, JB from JLS and Blue Peter Gardener Chris Collins. In addition to introducing a brand new cluster of native broadleaf sapling bushes in Islington – an space with air air pollution ranges usually 3 times greater than the EU authorized restrict – we took the chance to talk to the youngsters about renewable energy and sustainability.
Arsenal Digital Membership Day
Hector Bellerin, Bukayo Saka and Eddie Nketiah hosted a mini post-game interview with three younger gunners who fielded some questions across the atmosphere, taking part in for Arsenal and Dennis Bergkamp’s potential journey to the arctic on this video
Arsenal’s Colney Wooden
In October 2018, we acquired along with Hector, Arsenal alums Petr Cech and Aaron Ramsay, and Gunnersaurus to interrupt floor on a model new mini-woodland at Arsenal’s London Colney coaching floor.
We’ve now added tons of extra bushes to the Woodland with the assistance of Gunnersaurus and the Junior Gunners as nicely – bringing the whole to nicely over 500.
A large battery put in in Emirates Stadium means residence video games can run on battery energy
Subsequent, we teamed up with Arsenal to set up a 3MW mega-battery at Emirates Stadium, so residence video games can run on 100% inexperienced battery energy. This ground-breaking little bit of tech is an revolutionary method of constructing vitality even greener on a bigger scale.
How does it work?
The battery has sufficient capability to energy a complete match from kick-off to the ultimate whistle. The battery is designed to replenish every time the UK’s vitality provide is greenest (often when the solar is shining, the wind is blowing and never many individuals are utilizing energy, within the wee hours of the morning). Then, between 4-7pm, when demand on the grid is excessive and the UK has to burn way more soiled fossil fuels, Arsenal’s night video games can run on saved, inexperienced vitality as a substitute!
Uncover how our ground-breaking battery powers Arsenal’s video games on this video:
Hundreds of gooners have gone inexperienced with Octopus and Arsenal to avoid wasting carbon and money
Followers can signal as much as a particular Arsenal inexperienced vitality tariff which provides you 100% renewable electrical energy and common Arsenal prize attracts too. Since our partnership started, 1000’s of followers have switched to inexperienced energy.
Collectively, 103 video games have been performed utilizing sustainable vitality to energy the stadium, rating the Gunners primary within the sustainability for the Premier League!
