Green Gown Awards 2016 – Sustainability Reporting – De Montfort University – Finalist

The University has always taken ‘a real world’ approach to developing sustainability and this extends to its sustainability reporting. The sustainability reporting has always aimed to be transparent, engaging and stimulating.

The organisation’s sustainability reports have been tailored to the audiences in questions with detailed annual reports being presented to senior management and more engaging, visual reports being available to staff, students and visitors through the University’s website.

The sustainability reports clearly define the University’s objectives and targets and their associated timescales. As well as progress reporting against these objectives and targets the University also provides details of the raw data as evidence of its sustainability performance.

De Montfort University Environmental Reports

Top 3 learnings

1 Your reporting needs to be tailored to your audience

2 Make your reporting visually appealing where you can

3 Engage others in helping to produce your public facing reports.