Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
In recent decades, the world has experienced unprecedented urban growth. In 2015, close to 4 billion people — 54 per cent of the world’s population — lived in cities and that number is projected to increase to about 5 billion people by 2030. Rapid urbanization has brought enormous challenges, including growing numbers of slum dwellers, increased air pollution, inadequate basic services and infrastructure, and unplanned urban sprawl, which also make cities more vulnerable to disasters. Better urban planning and management are needed to make the world’s urban spaces more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. As of May 2017, 149 countries were developing national-level urban policies.
SDG Accord Report 2023 - Case Studies
SDG Accord Report 2022 - Case Studies
We recognise that as an SDG Accord signatory, institutions have great stories to tell on how SDGs are being integrated within their community. As part of the institutional SDG...
Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
What do the SDGs look like in HE and FE?
Following on from last year's successful Cup of tea and an SDG series, timed to celebrate Global Goals Week, this year we once again brought you some brilliant SDG...
The University of Stirling Students Association formed an environmental hub called Green and Blue Space. This hub allows students to come in and ask questions about subjects...
A team of travel advisers deliver advice to commuters on how to make their commute more sustainable. The advisers are trained during the summer, and deliver most of their travel...
The 'TRNSPRT at the College’ event for staff and students aimed to encourage people to think seriously about how they travel to and from the college and how they can...
Green Gown Awards 2019 - Aston University - Finalist
University of Edinburgh - Business Travel Emissions
Integrating Food into Urban Planning
In celebration of Global Goals Week, we held webinars showcasing the initiatives institutions are conducting that contribute to the SDGs. These were bite-size webinars, just 15...
University of Edinburgh
Goldsmiths, University of London
The King’s Libraries Team - King’s College London
Associate Professor in Sustainable Construction and Surveying
Distributed Leadership for the Long Game The University of Gloucestershire (UoG) has an enviable track record on sustainability for its small size and resource base. It is...
The Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability was established in 2014 to enable the University of Edinburgh to understand, explain and deliver on its ambition to...
Keele University is different, and we do sustainability differently! We don’t have a Sustainability Co-ordinating Office, we don’t have a Director of...
Student opportunities and Training Better Leaders
Small but mighty - University of Worcester punches above its weight
Here for current and future generations
Let’s make a sustainable planet: Marking a decade of inspiration, innovation and impact
Meliora: A student international sustainability research symposium and journal series
Bring Your Own Bowl
Staffs TV does Top Gear
The Great Donate – Reducing waste and benefitting the community when students leave the campus Halls of Residence at the end of term
Glasgow Kelvin Velocity: The wheels of sustainability
Living the green and not just a dream
Our Shared City Move-Out Campaign
LOOSing Water
Leeds Living Lab: Where knowledge grows
On-line Certificate: Sustainable Development and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act
Embedding sustainability in the global nursing curriculum
Sustainable futures through online learning
Green Teachers
SHE Inspires
Green Growth Platform - connect, innovate, grow
EcoFeast
Utter Rubbish - an app to tackle fly tipping and improve recycling across the UK
Catching fire for carbon reductions
From coal to cloud - Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building
Campus Transformation – a campus for the 21st Century
Sustain It Bottle
Reusable Cup Race
Campus compost collaboration
Campus Community Fridge – the first UK university community fridge
Ditch disposables at King’s
Cross Atlantic project-based learning - a tale of two Worcesters