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Over the past year, we have been reviewing our environmental sustainability impacts and preparing a strategy for the institution.

We invited the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº community to provide their comments on the strategy and received a lot of helpful and supportive input. In April, the strategy was approved by the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Council and has formed the basis for our activity as a team and also for the institution.

The strategy is based on five core aims:

• Creating a sustainable campus

• Enable, empower and support ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Communities to address their environmental sustainability effects

• To provide the education, advancement, dissemination and application of sustainable development

• To maximize the wider impact of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's environmental sustainability activities at local, regional, national and international level through collaboration, partnership and communications

• To be regarded as a leader in environmental sustainability across the HE sector.

To deliver these aims, we are undertaking work with the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Estates teams on refurbishment and maintenance projects, as well as developing new programmes for staff and student engagement. In addition, an online training course has been prepared for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Green Champions and the wider community.

There are several major issues and challenges which we need to address over the next year: reviewing our Carbon Management Plan and in particular, the targets and commitments; incentivising department and faculty action; reviewing opportunities for sustainable procurement; as well as completing our work on sustainable literacy through the HEA Green Academy.

To read the strategy and find out what is happening at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, please see our .

Richard Jackson, Head of Environmental Sustainability, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Estates