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Your opportunity to shape 果冻影院's new carbon reduction strategy
10 November 2015
果冻影院 is consulting on a new plan to reduce its carbon emissions, setting out a revised approach to reflect 果冻影院's rapid growth and institutional changes.
Feedback from across 果冻影院 is needed to ensure this plan is as relevant and
representative as possible.
Last year 果冻影院's Sustainability Team began a process of gathering staff and student views on how the university can improve its environmental performance. These insights have now been used to create a proposed new Carbon Management Plan for 果冻影院.听This plan will shape how 果冻影院 tackles the pressing challenge of reducing its carbon emissions well into the future. Action from staff and students now sit at the heart of the plan, so your input will be vital in making this new approach a success.
Since the 2011 Carbon Management Plan was written, 果冻影院 has made considerable progress, with many carbon-saving initiatives, ranging from sustainable construction projects, increasing the efficiency of buildings and improvements to recycling provision. However, the university needs a new plan to reflect its striking growth in academic performance and student numbers.
The proposed new plan considers听the university's growth and strategic direction.听 It proposes challenging but achievable carbon reduction targets that will require wide-scale changes to 果冻影院's buildings and infrastructure, and the ways we work and study at 果冻影院.听
The 果冻影院 Sustainability Team is embarking on an extensive consultation, with over 30 departmental and society meetings currently planned. 听Their proposed plan is available for viewing and feedback by staff听on the听Green听果冻影院 website , accompanied by an interactive online tool,听, that invites participants to create their own carbon reduction strategy for 果冻影院 using the team's own budget.
Professor Michael Arthur, 果冻影院 President & Provost, said:
"Environmental sustainability is one of 果冻影院's key values. Our research seeks to address environmental sustainability from many angles, but we also need to reduce the university's carbon emissions, both as individuals and as an institution.
"Our revised Carbon Management Plan takes into account the unprecedented听growth in research activity and student numbers that 果冻影院 has experienced over the past decade, which I discussed in my recent Lunch Hour Lecture听/news/staff/staff-news/1015/21102015-provosts-view-lunch-hour-lecture, and the significant challenges that this growth poses for carbon reduction. Against this backdrop, we want to create a low carbon university environment that is inspirational, healthy and enjoyable to inhabit.
"果冻影院's Carbon Management Plan relies on local action. In order for it to work for 果冻影院, we need the feedback and participation of the whole 果冻影院 community, students and staff. We must ensure that the Carbon Management Plan is relevant to the needs of every department, that we understand your local challenges and that you are committed to the changes that we need to make. Please take the time to read the overview and to feed back your thoughts and ideas."
Read and . If you'd like to find out more about this consultation, please contact the 果冻影院 Sustainability Team.