How climate-friendly is your university or college? UK university and colleges need to commit to and deliver ambitious carbon reduction targets to tackle the climate emergency. Find out how yours is doing:
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dBs Music Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK), alongside the National Union of Students (NUS), the University and College Union (UCU) and People & Planet (P&P) are calling for ambitious carbon reduction targets to take action on the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
We know that in order to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees we need to commit to and start delivering these ambitious targets by the end of the academic year (2020/21).
We've collated UK university and college carbon reduction targets to view and compare across the sector. Targets are scored based on the ambition , and we will develop the resource at a future date to score based on progress and implementation. Check out our scoring methodology
We have articulated a suitable goal for the sector
How is the sector doing?
Last updated October 2020
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Students want action
At NUS conference last year, students passed a policy calling on UK universities and colleges to declare and act on the climate emergency. The policy
NUS Conference is the biggest democratic gathering of students in the world, and the elected delegates that attend represent the interest of 7 million students in tertiary education in the UK.
A suitably ambitious goal for the sector
To tackle the climate emergency and ecological crisis, we believe UK universities and colleges should publicly commit to being net zero emissions for scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2030.
Within 12 months of this commitment, institutions should have developed a fully-costed, comprehensive action plan showing the planned emission reduction curve.
Targets should be set by the end of the 2020/21 academic year and action plans published by the end of the 2021/22 academic year.
Scope 3
For this project, scope 3 includes water supply and waste water treatment, waste collection and management, business travel, staff commuting, student travel, procurement, endowment investments and agricultural landholdings.
Offsetting
Institutions should plan to restrict the use of offsetting to scope 3 emissions that are not currently viable to eliminate. Offsets should be procured through credible schemes, such as Gold standard-accredited schemes or locally-developed alternatives, and institutions should commit to a reasonable minimum offset price.
Offsetting should not be used as a way for institutions to shift the burden of their emissions whilst continuing business as usual in the UK. The social impact, as well as the credibility of carbon savings, of offsetting schemes should be comprehensively considered.
Biodiversity
Universities and colleges should develop robust plans to increase biodiversity net gain on campus. All institutions should conduct baseline and ongoing ecological surveys to monitor biodiversity net gain.
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