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Celebrating Success 5th June, 2014 Professor Tony Stevenson Pro-Vice-Chancellor Planning and Resources 1 World Environment Day 2 Vision 2021 • To Achieve – Financial and Environmental Sustainability • Societal Challenges – Ageing; Sustainability; Social Renewal 3 Operational Environmental Sustainability The ESS Sustainability Team and a network of 80 volunteer Environmental Co-ordinators work to reduce the environmental impacts of the University. Recent achievements include: • Attaining a 1st Class award from People and Planet Green League 2013 • Dual accreditation- EcoCampus Platinum & ISO14001 – Renewed 2014 • Recycling Rate >90% and zero general waste to landfill • Introduced resource redistribution scheme, WARPit • Completion of £4.4m boiler scheme saved circa 6000t CO2 to date • An additional £1.2M invested in carbon reduction projects over last 5 years, saving £427k and 2,500 tonnes CO2 p.a. • Water use reduced by a further 3.9% - 23.9% since 2008/9 • Proportion of staff travelling to work by car reduced from 40% in 2004 to 19.6% in 2013 • Undertaken 3rd year of Green Impact 4 Operational Environmental Sustainability General waste recycled 100 80 60 40 20 0 79 97 94 93 Windsor Terrace Development Savings % of general waste recycled. 45 29 Target: Maintain rate above 90% Commuting 2004 9.7 5.3 0.6 0.3 0.3 0 Car single occ. Train/Metro 40.4 16.9 150 100 50 0 -50 -100 -150 -200 -250 -300 87 Electricity Walk Cycle Park & Ride Commuting 2012 -271 8.7 Train/Metro Cost (£) £10,000 Gas Total -£10,000 26.6 Walk Cycle Park & Ride Motorbike Electricity Gas -£20,000 Total Bus 29.1 Gas £- Car single occ. 19.6 Electricity £14,154 Electricity 11.4 Total -184 £20,000 0 3.1 0.3 Gas Total Bus 20.7 1.2 CO2 Emissions (Tonnes) -£30,000 -£30,924 -£40,000 -£50,000 -£45,077 Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended Sustainability Resource Guide • Launched 12th March 2014 Caryn Evans • Collaborative Project between the University Library, SAgE and the Institute for Sustainability • Provides a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of sustainability Richard Adamson L-R Karen Crinnion, Moira Bent, Jen Hazelton, Sue Haile Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended EAT@NCL Sustainable Food Initiatives • 10 Outlets awarded Bronze Food for Life • MSC certified fish in all outlets • Contract established to send all food waste to anaerobic digestion, diverting waste from landfill • Purchased an electric vehicle for delivered services • Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended Grounds Team Biodiversity Initiatives Ian Walker Pollinator Garden- Robinson Library Guided Tree Walks Tom Vasey Paul Cowan Best Environmental Initiative - Winner Accommodation & Hospitality Foodbank Initiative • Launched summer 2013 • Residents of University owned accommodation encouraged to donate any unopened food jars/tins/packets • Campaign repeated in Christmas 2013 • 1 metric ton of food waste donated to the Trussell Trust Foodbanks Sustainable Estate Project – Highly Commended Grand Hotel Refurbishment Paul Nicholson L-R John McNeil, Andy Ransome, Paul Bandeen, Robin Beattie Sustainable Estate Project - Winner Cockle Park Refurbishment Green Impact Working Towards Bronze Award- Merz Court L-R Daniel Nova, Zaynab Sherif, Rob Dixon, Isabel Cipriani Avila Green Impact Bronze Award NUBsies (NU Business School) Ellen Arkless Green Impact Bronze Award Castle Leazes June Battista Green Impact Bronze Awards Psycho Warriors Richard Armstrong Ashleigh Gibson L-R Katie Lodge, Se-Wah Shek and Karen Clark Darren Burr Green Impact Silver Award Library Green Group Deborah Anderson L-R Linda Errington, David Gardner, Libby Matthewson Richard Catherall Sara Bird Terri Hennissey Green Impact Catering Gold Award Lean Green Catering Machine Steven Hogg Megan Robson Kay Jones Michelle Milligan Nikki Watkins Green Impact Gold Award King’s Gate Ecoteam Steven Hogg Helen Butler Marie Pattison Melanie Dunnett Elaine Patterson Rachel Watson Green Impact Gold Award The Wombles (Leazes Terrace) Helen Pearson L-R Kathleen Stevenson, Mark Barrow, Ian Brown Dylan Berry Green Impact Highest Achiever AwardIHS Ecoteam Angela Jones L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton Tomos Robinson Green Impact Innovation AwardIHS EcoTeam Angela Jones L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton Tomos Robinson • Launched IHS EcoTeam blog • Promotion of green initiatives though IHS webpages • Support with recruiting new teams to the scheme Outstanding Achievement Award Students’ Union and SCAN • NUS Green Fund Projects (various) L-R Red Kellie, Bob Milan, Phillip Hay • Green Impact Student’s Union Gold SCAN Committee 2014 Thank you and Congratulations to all 23