Young Innovators Council (YIC) is the voice of young people at Northern Gas Networks. Its aim is to provide young people’s perspectives and help ensure young people’s thoughts and opinions are put at the heart of our decision making through meaningful and relevant engagement with our future customers.
We wanted to ensure that YIC members understand and are familiar with the basic role of NGN: distributing gas to people’s homes. It was vital that all members were able to get to know one another and to agree a set of common guidelines for the council in conversation. We also wanted to use the session to host discussions about NGN and some of their environmental responsibilities.
Communicating clearly
You said that the best way to communicate environmental data, is through real life examples due to it being easily understood and relatable to all audiences.
We will include relatable, real world examples in our environmental reporting moving forward to help our stakeholders visualise the data.
Compensating the environment
You said that the most responsible thing for NGN to do when missing carbon targets, is to keep the targets to maintain accountability, but to look at alternate ways to benefit the environment.
We will review the possibility of developing innovative ways to compensate the environment if we miss an element of our carbon reduction targets as an alternative to traditional offsetting schemes.
88%
of the YIC felt that real world examples help to build understanding around carbon emissions.