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title: Environmental Work and Climate Sabbatical Work
date: 2024-03-27T13:20:49Z
modified: 2025-07-29T10:29:04Z
permalink: "https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/environmental-work-and-climate-sabbatical-work/"
type: glossary-term
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## Definition

**Environmental Work** means work activities that:

(a) contribute to the understanding, management, protection, preservation or restoration of the \[local OR national\] environment \[by:

\[(i) limiting [Greenhouse Gas Emissions](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gas-emissions/);

(ii) improving energy efficiency;

(iii) minimising the use of raw materials, waste and pollution;

(iv) managing, protecting, and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity including rewilding;

(v) supporting adaptation to the effects of climate change;

and/or

(b) furthers the understanding, protection, preservation or restoration of the \[local OR national\] environment.

and/or

(c) produces goods or provides services that benefit the environment.

**Climate \[Sabbatical\] Work** means work \[undertaken on a sabbatical basis\] that does one of the following:

(a) reduces [Greenhouse Gas Emissions](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gas-emissions/) including by improving energy efficiency, minimising the use of raw materials, waste and pollution, or protecting and restoring the environment and biodiversity;

(b) furthers the understanding, protection, preservation or restoration of the environment; and/or

(c) supports adaptation to the effects of climate change.

\[It can include activities such as tree planting, clearing and rewilding derelict land, habitat creation, installing energy efficiency measures or renewable power or raising awareness of climate change\].

**Climate Sabbatical Work** means work that meets the criteria for approval of a climate sabbatical in \[_insert name of document containing criteria_\] \[and that is aligned with \[the [Paris Agreement Goals](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/paris-agreement-goals/) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) OR _insert other relevant current goals or standards_\] and that does not contravene the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights\].