The Green League 2007

7th June 2007

Today, 7 June 2007, the UK's leading student campaign network, People & Planet, has published the first ever green league table showing the environmental performance of Britain's universities. Leeds Met, Plymouth and Hertfordshire top the leaderboard. The Green League 2007 celebrates success, and exposes those institutions who are have yet to live up to their environmental responsibilities.

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Published in the Times Higher Education Supplement today, People & Planet's Green League 2007 ranks all British universities: awarding them with a First, 2:1, 2:2, Third, or Fail based on eight different environmental criteria, both policy and performance related. It incorporates data never before published in the public domain & obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; including the percentage of energy purchased from renewable sources, percentage of waste recycled, and CO2 emissions for each institution.

The EAUC welcomes People and Planet’s challenging and stimulating Green League. Iain Patton, Executive Director, said:

“The table reflects the excellent practice demonstrated by universities but highlights the work still to be done in the sector. The EAUC supports institutions to embed sustainability into every aspect of their campus, curriculum and organisational culture. Vice chancellors and Principals, who do so, will take their rightful place as leaders and role models of sustainability in the UK. That said, such tables must be based on comparable data and the EAUC would question the use of the current EMS statistics as a primary source of table metrics. Government policy is increasingly demanding public reporting of performance and universities and colleges have much to gain by taking a proactive approach to designing, implementing and publicly reporting on comparable, standardised data.”