Green Gown Awards 2019 - King’s College London - Finalist

Our 2017-18 Environmental Sustainability Report gives an overview of the university’s progress on sustainability over the last academic year. This is our second Environmental Sustainability Report, and we are pleased with how it has engaged students and staff in sustainability so far.  

While the report is based around the areas of our key sustainability targets, we aim to give students, staff and the public a comprehensive overview of sustainability activities at King’s. Therefore, we try to go beyond operational sustainability, and include case studies of student and staff engagement, as well as education and research projects.  

We map our targets and focus areas against the UN Sustainable Development Goals to show how the university’s work fits into wider global goals. This also helps us communicate about the report and our targets as the SDGs are recognisable and give readers a global framework to view our actions against. 

Top 3 learnings:

• Be transparent, especially when you haven’t achieved a target. 
• Map your targets against the SDGs to make it easy for readers to connect them with global action.  
• Keep records of projects from around the university throughout the year.