The free templates

Your first week

Five things to do in your first week, none of which needs a budget

Terms of reference

What the role is for, what it covers and how it will be judged

Data request

Asks the people who hold your bills, fuel and spending data for what you need, in week one

90-day plan and day-90 report

Plans your first three months and reports on them in one page

Carbon baseline Excel and Word

Measures where you are today, one row for each source of emissions. The workbook adds up for you and includes the book's worked example.

Method note and reporting guide

Records how you measured, so that anyone could repeat it

Annual report

Reports progress each year in two pages

Carbon Reduction Plan

Answers what customers and public sector buyers ask for

Supplier's answer pack

Lets you answer a customer's carbon questions in an afternoon

Sustainability strategy and action plan

Brings the vision, targets, priorities and governance together, with every action, owner, date, cost and carbon saving

Strategy on a page

Sums up the strategy on one side of A4, for the people who will read nothing else

Solar sites and quotes

Chooses where panels should go, and compares quotes like for like

Climate risk assessment

Shows which climate risks matter and what you will do about them

Business case

Makes the case for each project in money and risk

Funding plan

Matches each project to a way to pay for it, with deadlines

Savings check

Shows what each project actually saved, allowing for the weather

Meter and supply register

Finds supplies, charges and recharges you are paying for by mistake

Briefing note

Gets a decision from a senior leader in one page

Launch pack

Tells staff, partners and the public about the strategy within the same fortnight

Partnership agreement

Sets out a joint project on one page

Sustainability impact assessment

Checks new decisions for carbon and climate

Achievements and lessons logs

Keeps a record of the work, so it survives changes of people

Lead's playbook and handover pack

Records how the job is done, ready to hand over

Letter to a key supplier

Asks a supplier that matters about its emissions and plans, and invites it to work with you

The number work (Chapter 6)

Turn a folder of bills into a table, find gaps and duplicates, convert units, apply conversion factors with formulas, summarise by scope, check a spreadsheet for errors, explain the results to leaders, and sort a year of spending into categories

Reporting (Chapter 7)

Draft a Carbon Reduction Plan, and answer a customer's carbon questionnaire

Your supply chain (Chapter 15)

Draft a letter to a key supplier