Leadership in sustainability and climate change
Our enabiling strategies
Through our education, research, partnerships and campus, we will be a beacon of sustainable development practices, making a positive difference to climate change, society, and the environment.
This will include maintaining our leadership position in national and international sustainability rankings.
Our programmes will equip students to shape a more sustainable future and we will work with employers to identify the sustainability skills needed in graduates. We will embed these skills, alongside education for sustainable development, into formal and informal learning and development, making students more employable.
Where we have relevant strengths, our high-quality research, education, and partnerships will support the aims of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and contribute to the world’s sustainability agenda.
We will embed sustainability into our campus, and the way we work. This contributes to reaching our carbon targets and maximising social value. Our carbon management plan will keep us on track to reduce our carbon emissions related to fuel and energy use to zero — and our carbon emissions related to our value chain to net zero before 2038.
Our leadership in sustainability will not only add value to our local, national and international engagement activities, but support our city-region on its journey to net zero carbon by 2038.
I am incredibly proud that we are the world’s first university to help students become carbon literate. We also aim to embed Education for Sustainable Development and climate change education in all our programmes, benefitting our students, society and our environment.
I am incredibly proud that we are the world’s first university to help students become carbon literate. We also aim to embed Education for Sustainable Development and climate change education in all our programmes, benefitting our students, society and our environment.