ENVIRONMENT
We take our environmental responsibilities seriously and are committed to building on our achievements. The University’s Impact 2022 strategy expresses the importance of corporate social responsibility and reaffirms our commitment to reducing our impact on the environment; increase sustainability in our operations and education; and address challenges through building effective and strategic partnerships. Impact 2022 set new targets to meet the highest standards in relation to our environment, including energy, waste and travel. We will deliver against our mission as a civic University, engaging with communities across the county of Buckinghamshire and elsewhere. We will engage effectively with business, actively contributing to the local and national industrial strategies, and economic growth within the region. We will minimise the impact of our estate on the environment. We were the first university to receive a Gold CSR Award. In 2020, BNU signed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Accord. We have committed to publicly sharing our submissions to the UN to provide transparency around our progress against the 17 SDGs which span climate change, reducing inequalities, promoting economic growth, providing quality education and tackling poverty. Although we are at an early stage of explicitly aligning the SDGs to our strategic work, we are very proud of all that our University community has already done to make a positive impact locally, nationally and globally. In 2020 we announced our pledge to go carbon net zero by 2030 - 20 years ahead of the Government’s target. We are moving towards embedding sustainability into our curriculum for all disciplines and course programmes.
OUR SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES ARE TO:
Create a sustainable campus.
Enable, empower and support the BNU community to tackle their sustainability impacts.
Provide the education, advancement dissemination and application of sustainable development.
Maximise the impact of BNU's environmental sustainability activities at local, regional, national and international levels through collaboration, partnership and communications.
Become a leader across the HE sectors in terms of environmental sustainability.
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