Green Gown Awards 2017 - University of Cambridge - Winner

The University of Cambridge is committed to making a positive impact through outstanding environmental sustainability performance. A new Environmental Sustainability Vision, Policy and Strategy was launched in 2015, including a policy framework showing how our environmental sustainability vision aligns with the University mission and one of its core values.

In order to deliver our policy aspirations, the University is implementing its multi-step Environmental Sustainability Strategy, which contains details of the aims, targets, key performance indicators and implementation mechanisms relating to the key impacts and supporting approaches of the vision.

The University’s first Annual Environmental Sustainability Report 2016 is an overview of progress in 2015/16 towards the aims and ambitions contained in the Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2015-2020. It is the first of what will become an annual report, and provides details of the University's successes in sustainability, the lessons learned along the way and the plans for forthcoming years.

Top 3 learnings:

1 Be honest about your progress – whether you have achieved your target, or can do better.

2 Collaborate – draw inputs from all who have been involved.

3 Provide examples – a case study paints a thousand pictures!

CO2t savings 2016/2017: 2,018 tCO2e per year (Estimated)