Boosting sustainability and wellbeing – 16th Oct 2019

It has been a record-breaking year for the higher education sector with 238,000 positive actions recorded across Jump’s university programmes. Jump is the leading...

Discover Teach the Future – 16th Oct 2019

SOS, NUS’s new sustainability charity, and UKSCN, the school strikers organisation, have launched a new campaign to repurpose the entire education system, from primary...

Tags: education | ESD | curriculum | policy and legislation

Government outlines review of education emissions reduction targets – 15th Oct 2019

The UK government has responded to the reports from the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) today. The government acknowledged the CCC’s point that the UK is on track to...

The Environment Bill - what are we looking for? – 15th Oct 2019

DEFRA will today present the finalised Environment Bill to Parliament, following on from its announcement in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. You can read the...

Tags: waste | policy | plastic | eu | Environment Bill | Brexit

Environmenstrual week highlights sanitary plastic issue – 14th Oct 2019

The second annual Environmenstrual Week is being held 12th-19th October, and is highlighting the issues that period plastic has on the environment, human health and period...

Tags: waste | plastics | Plastic Free | Sanitary | sanitary support | periods

New report outlines behaviour change needed for Net Zero – 14th Oct 2019

Imperial College London published a new report last week titled ‘Behaviour change, public engagement and Net Zero’. The report outlines the potential for people to...

Tags: carbon reduction | sustainable travel | sustainable food | net zero | domestic heating

Implementing the SDGs at Higher Education Institutions Challenges and Responses – 10th Oct 2019

The second meeting of the GUNi Group of Experts on SDGs and Higher Education and presentation of its last publication was celebrated on the 3rd and 4th of October 2019 and...

Enter the EAUC Annual Conference 2020 Climate Image Competition – 8th Oct 2019

We are inviting students from a visual arts background or who have a hobby in this direction to join EAUC's Annual Conference 2020 Climate Image Competition. This is a...

£50m green energy net zero deal from UK universities – 7th Oct 2019

The Energy Consortium (TEC) has established for twenty pioneering universities including Newcastle, Exeter and Aberystwyth; a UK first – an aggregated power purchase...

Advice for students - how to become food savvy at uni – 7th Oct 2019

Starting uni? We all know you need your pots and pans, and a few key recipes to keep you well fed. But what about some savvy habits to protect the planet? Well, you can start...