Environmental Sustainability

Working within well-established local and national partnerships, our universities are committed to act sustainably and nurture our environment.

We are fortunate to benefit from the knowledge of world-leading experts and benchmark our delivery against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Through global research, partnerships and collaborations we are committed to addressing the most pressing issues of our time such as the climate emergency.

We will focus on ambitious local actions that are not being addressed through other established forums and which could not be achieved through acting alone. We will draw upon innovative ideas from staff, students and public engagement to deliver collaborative solutions.

Together we will:

a. Commit to reducing our carbon footprints and improving our environmental sustainability.

b. Support behavioural change by delivering educational programmes that promote environmental sustainability, including carbon literacy training and sustainability audits (SDG 4).

c. Deliver research that tackles environmental challenges: supporting mitigation and adaptation to climate change (SDG 13) and ensuring access to clean, affordable and sustainable air, water, sanitation and energy (SDG 6, SDG 7).

d. Enhance natural capital and biodiversity locally, including on our university campuses (SDG 14, SDG 15), and reduce the negative environmental impacts of local resource use (SDG 12).

Contacts

Andrew Reeves (De Montfort University)
Sandra Lee (University of Leicester)
Nik Hunt (Loughborough University)

For more information about what you can do, see our Resources page.