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UK schools get a green makeover SUBHEAD: INTRO: The UK's largest electricity supplier, npower, unveils multi-million pound plans for a green makeover in British schools. MOREINFO: The aim is to educate children on climate change while making their schools more energy efficient. Darcy Lambton reports. SCRIPT: Pop star Sophie Ellis Bextor goes back to junior school in London to help launch the Npower Greener Schools Programme. The 20 million pound initiative will provide schools across the UK with what the energy giant calls a 'green makeover.' Under the scheme schools get free energy audits and tailor-made energy efficiency measures while children are educated on how to be greener. Npower denies the move is a glorious PR and branding exercise to detract attention from its own considerable emissions. Chief executive Andrew Duff says companies have a duty to raise awareness before it's too late -- especially among those who one day will hold the planet's future in their hands. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Duff, Npower Chief Executive, saying (English): "I'm not sure yet that our customers, the population and the communites generally are aware of both the need and the opportunity to take action and to change the way that we live And so I think we do have a responsibility to help, to educate and to inform and if you're going to educate society then where better to start than with children who are perhaps the best learners that we have and the most influential." The UK's largest electricity supplier is backing its rhetoric, with a commitment to reduce its CO2 emissions by a third. The pledge underlines how much greener the corporate landscape looks these days. But bringing some climate change issues into the classroom can backfire. Recently the UK government was legally challenged over plans to show Al Gore's Oscar winning doumentary - An Inconvenient Truth - in schools nationwide. A school governor contested the film is politically biased and factually incorrect. A high court said several claims could be construed as alarmist but ruled the film could be shown with caveats attached. Darcy Lambton, Reuters.