On Thursday 2nd December the EAUC-Scotland Travel and Transport Topic Support Network met to discuss how the focus areas for reducing carbon emissions have changed as a result...
Hillside Environmental Services has summarised and clarified all of the reporting requirements you need to meet and protocols you need to adopt in baselining, evaluating, and...
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...
The first plenary session at this year's conference looked at carbon targets.
Dial in to EAUC-Scotland's sharing series to hear from some peers in the sector about what works - and what doesn't - for encouraging Virtual Meetings to reduce...
EAUC-Scotland virtual 'Sustainability Sharing Series' March 2019 edition discussed lowering the carbon impact of ICT. We have produced a best practice...
International student air travel fuels Carbon Literacy Living Lab - Manchester Metropolitan University
The University of Westminster is take a different approach to communicating the benefits of going vegetarian by using the 'Part-time Carnivore Loyalty Card'
The University of Cambridge’s Sustainable Food Policy aims to reduce the central catering department’s impact on the environment through, among other initiatives,...
Dumfries & Galloway College decided to take its boiler burner technology to the next level to maximize energy efficiencies and reduce carbon. The results were more than...
The Lincoln College Group - carbon reduction case study with Salix funding
University of Reading - carbon reduction case study with Salix funding
Members are invited to watch the webinar we held to discuss the consultation 'Leading by example: cutting energy bills and carbon emissions in the public and...
The session gave an in-depth overview into the impact that food choices have on our health, environment and communities and how institutions have the power to positively...
The Energy Detectives – Investigating and solving energy waste across campus
From carbon ambitions to carbon success
Improving Sustainability Together – our success story (so far…)
Smashing 35
Greening West Anglia
Medical School carbon reduction strategies
Achieving carbon reductions above and beyond the basics!
Lights, solar, action!
Resource Efficient Scotland held a lighting workshop focussing on how to save energy and money on lighting. There was a detailed presentation which is available to download...
Brite Green: Carbon Emissions in Higher Education in England. 2020 Carbon Target Progress Report for the Academic Year 2014/15
At Manchester Metropolitan University, our vision is to become one of the most sustainable universities in the world. In 2014, the development of a new Environmental...
This workshop presentation is from the “Global Goals: Local Action” EAUC Annual Conference 2017, presented by Jonathan Mills, Carbon, Environment &...
Useful Online Toolkit for helping organisations to implement travel work plans.
The £25 million Biomass Energy Centre & District Heating Network for the University of St Andrews has been celebrated at one of Scotland’s most prestigious...
The University published it's new Climate Strategy which sets out a whole institution approach and new long term carbon reduction targets. You can view the...
Over the last ten years, the effort to save energy at the University of Copenhagen has paid off, producing both green results and large economic gains. Recent data shows...
Heike Singleton, Carbon Management Officer, University of York emailed the Members network with the following: “We are currently reviewing our carbon reduction targets...
Extracting carbon savings from our science labs A £1.025 million estate-wide review and upgrade of science laboratory ventilation, covering 252 fume cupboards to...
Carbon week - embedding sustainability into all second year students Climate change, sustainability and decarbonisation will be key factors in every business decision a...
Queen’s University Belfast Energy Team The Queen’s University Belfast Energy Team consists of four people that are a part of the wider Estates Directorate....
4C – Co-generation Carbon Climate Care The University has built an energy centre with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and introduced a range of energy saving...
Lighting up London Met Lighting Up London Met consists of 3 main areas – installing 3,170 LED lights, 221 PV panels and 914 windows. The project brightened up the...
Taking carbon to task at Stirling: The University of Stirling’s combined heat and power plant and residences development project This ground breaking project...
Saving space – The new carbon frontier The University of Lincoln achieved a 63% reduction energy consumption and a 58% reduction in carbon emissions for its College of...
Lower mileage; lower carbon; lower costs The University of Cumbria has reduced its reliance on travel and vehicles through an extensive change programme. This has involved...
Major energy and carbon reduction works at Grade II Listed 1934 -2010 Built Environment – Cambridge University Library This project has successfully demonstrated how...
The University of Oxford Carbon Reduction Programme The University set an ambitious target (considering its estates!) to reduce scope one and two carbon emissions by 33% by...
Embracing the carbon reduction challenge Keele University has reduced its carbon emissions significantly thanks to a dedicated programme of carbon reduction projects...
Carbon vision 2020 In 2010 the Field Studies Council set its vision for 2020 and with the need to reduce carbon emissions a target was set to reduce our carbon emissions by...
The Carbon Scenario Tool has been developed as a joint funded project between the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Funding Council. The tool was designed principally to...
This webinar took place on 30th June 2016, with the video providing an introduction to the Carbon Scenario Tool background, structure and capabilities, and a live demonstration...
This workshop presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
This Exchange presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
The Brief CHANGE AGENTS UK and the National Union of Students (NUS), working with other stakeholders, delivered the DEFRA funded Degrees Cooler Project to foster pro...
UEL has recently increased its focus on sustainability, including change agents in its Facilities Environment Team to help reduce the institution's carbon footprint and...
Since 2007 Victoria University of Wellington has been reducing its carbon emissions. Stationary energy and transport were identified as target areas
The Higher Education Carbon Challenge report gives an overview some of the trends in carbon emissions and carbon performance of UK higher education institutions.
South West Energy Centre (SWEC) is an award winning, unique facility providing advice, guidance and training to industry and consumers in all matters relating to the Low Carbon...
Keeping Oxford Brookes University moving is a daily challenge. With 2,800 staff and 18,500 students, Brookes needs a clean, green and sustainable means of getting people between...
The University opened a new energy centre hosting two ultra-efficient CHP engines to nearly double its self-generated electricity and heat
The Carbon Challenge is a completely self-funding competition which encourages a healthy rivalry to be the ‘greenest’ between the University’s various campus...
Saving the planet, saving cash, shrinking the College’s carbon footprint whilst, at the same time, stimulating staff and learners’ imagination in terms of...
A 43% reduction in carbon emissions was achieved since 2009/10. This has resulted in a cost saving of £1,513,250 and carbon savings of 5,771 tonnes.
The street lighting infrastructure at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh Campus included several hundred high pressure sodium (SON) lamps with ageing control gear.
Edinburgh College is adopting a holistic approach to sustainability and carbon reduction. The college developed its first Carbon Management Plan in 2014
In 2014/15 investments of £2.1m have covered a range of technologies and buildings, including plant replacement (boilers and chillers), lighting upgrades including main campus...
Universities Scotland's 2015 report on the valuable efficiencies that Scottish universities have found.
Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future The Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future project has enhanced, optimised and improved the imaging and printing choices for...
Moving the masses – a commuter revolution The University of Wollongong (UOW) has developed and implemented a significant Sustainable Transport Strategy to shift...
Deakin University has reduced its transport carbon footprint by 1346 tonnes CO2 eq, at a cost of $856,000, with the implementation of on campus and intercampus transport methods
Newcastle University's Travel and Expenses Policy is led by Procurement and is filtered down to staff through management. The University is hopeful to see an improvement...
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how the University of Brighton has adopted sustainability as one of its core goals, as reflected in the institution’s Strategic Plan.
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Derby College their estate is comprised of modern BREEAM Excellence to Grade 2 listed buildings, which are used 356 days of the year for...
UWS community gardens reduce carbon through food growing; provide a living laboratory for students; and a social space for UWS staff, students and surrounding communities
Aston Go Green is a catchall term to summarise the wide range of sustainability initiatives at Aston University. The main benefits have been legal compliance and financial saving
The purchase of a real-time energy management system called Eniscope in August 2013 enabled Dundee and Angus College to identify any hidden energy leaks
The aim of the project was simply to produce less waste and use less energy in order to improve the ecological footprint of the College.
The ‘Octave’ is the University of Salford’s state of the art virtual reality suite. At its most extensive, it can present an eight-sided projected environment...
Upgrading ventilation and controls systems for the University of Reading’s chemistry teaching lab fume cupboards has returned major energy savings
Outstanding progress in reducing staff single person car commuter journeys from 40% to 16.5% has been achieved at Newcastle through consistent university wide effort over a decade
The University of Salford has a challenging carbon target of an absolute reduction of 43% by Sept 2020 from 2005/6 baseline.
From saving electricity to increasing biodiversity and pioneering the use of organic calico, Rachel engages community members, students and staff from diverse disciplines
Unsustainable pressure on static infrastructure budgets from increasing energy costs threatened the direct science budget at the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre
UEA is helping to build a demand-side power station, turning energy-intensive equipment across its campus into smart devices which can automatically adjust their energy demand
‘A building is only as green as the people are’. This motto, created during the year, epitomises OGEC. There will always be a limit to a buildings effect on a...
The University of Strathclyde is committed to ensuring its students make a useful and positive contribution to social and environmental challenges, locally and globally
The aim of the Bodleian Libraries energy project was to reduce annual costs by at least £100,000 so they could continue to offer world class services to students and researchers
Keele’s growth in sustainability activity has been astronomical, fuelled by dedicated high-level support, incredible local-level passion and engagement, and collegial...
Using HEFCE Revolving Green Funding, the University set out to show that there is life in 1960s building stock, of which there is much in the HE sector.
Bournemouth University’s Carbon Management Plan is a comprehensive programme of works aiming to meet the challenging 2015/16 target of a 30% reduction in absolute...
The implementation of the Lancaster University wind turbine project was difficult and controversial, but successfully completed in 2012.
Situated on a rural campus 4.5 km S of Lancaster city centre, the area is hilly and can experience inclement weather, not ideal geographical conditions for a successful Travel...
Schneider Electric has helped Kingston University conduct an energy audit to identify where savings could be made to hit their carbon emissions reduction target of 35% by 2020.
The nationwide adoption of "carbon reduction commitments" by universities and colleges is exciting! Many are making a real effort to reduce energy consumption in...
James Cook University has embarked on an ambitious energy management and efficiency program that has realised major cost and energy savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
From 2007 we’ve operated a very successful and holistic programme of waste minimisation projects using all of the elements of the waste hierarchy.
The University of Cumbria operates from several geographically dispersed sites, the main ones being 70 miles apart. Approximately 70% of our students attend placements as part...
A presentation about encouraging behaviour change for carbon reduction including case studies from Cranfield University and Bedford College
A presentation from the EAUC Annual Conference 2012 on Scope 3 emissions including a case study from De Montfort University.
In order to set an example by operating in an environmentally and socially responsible way, the Higher Education Funding Council for England set a key objective to minimise...
Coventry University’s Carbon Challenge scheme is an inter-faculty energy competition with eagerly anticipated monthly reports, quarterly league tables and prizes....