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Celebrating Success5th June, 2014

Professor Tony StevensonPro-Vice-Chancellor Planning and Resources

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World Environment Day

Vision 2021

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• To Achieve – Financial and Environmental Sustainability

• Societal Challenges – Ageing; Sustainability; Social Renewal

Operational Environmental Sustainability

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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

The ESS Sustainability Team and a network of 80 volunteer Environmental Co-ordinatorswork to reduce the environmental impacts of the University.

Operational Environmental Sustainability

2007/08

2008/09

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

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20

40

60

80

100

2945

7997 94 93

General waste recycled

% of general waste recycled.Target: Maintain rate above 90%

40.4

20.7

16.9

9.75.3 0.60.3 0.3

Commuting 2004Car single occ.Train/MetroBus WalkCyclePark & RideMotorbikeOtherCar share

19.6

29.126.6

11.48.7

0.31.2 3.1

Commuting 2012Car single occ.Train/MetroBus WalkCyclePark & RideMotorbikeOtherCar share

Electricity Gas Total

-300-250-200-150-100

-500

50100150

-271

87

-184

CO2 Emissions (Tonnes)

CO2 Emissions (Tonnes)

Electricity Gas Total

-£50,000

-£40,000

-£30,000

-£20,000

-£10,000

£-

£10,000

£20,000

-£45,077

£14,154

-£30,924

Cost (£)

Cost

Windsor Terrace Development Savings

Sustainability Resource Guide

Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended

• Launched 12th March 2014

• Collaborative Project between the University Library, SAgE and the Institute for Sustainability

• Provides a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of sustainability

L-R Karen Crinnion, Moira Bent, Jen Hazelton, Sue Haile

Caryn Evans

Richard Adamson

EAT@NCL Sustainable Food Initiatives

Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended

• 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

Grounds Team Biodiversity Initiatives

Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended

Tom Vasey

Ian WalkerPollinator Garden- Robinson Library

Guided Tree Walks 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

L-R John McNeil, Andy Ransome,Paul Bandeen, Robin Beattie

Paul Nicholson

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 AwardNUBsies (NU Business School)

Ellen Arkless

Green Impact Bronze AwardCastle Leazes

June Battista

Green Impact Bronze AwardsPsycho Warriors

L-R Katie Lodge, Se-Wah Shek and Karen Clark

Richard Armstrong

Darren Burr

Ashleigh Gibson

Green Impact Silver Award Library Green Group

Terri HennisseySara BirdRichard CatherallDeborah Anderson L-R Linda Errington, David Gardner, Libby Matthewson

Green Impact Catering Gold Award Lean Green Catering Machine

Kay Jones

Megan Robson Nikki Watkins

Steven Hogg Michelle Milligan

Green Impact Gold Award King’s Gate Ecoteam

Steven Hogg Helen Butler Melanie Dunnett Elaine Patterson

Marie Pattison Rachel Watson

Green Impact Gold Award The Wombles (Leazes Terrace)

L-R Kathleen Stevenson, Mark Barrow, Ian Brown

Helen Pearson Dylan Berry

Green Impact Highest Achiever Award-IHS Ecoteam

L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton

Angela Jones

Tomos Robinson

Green Impact Innovation Award-IHS EcoTeam

L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton

Angela Jones

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)

• Green Impact Student’s Union Gold

L-R Red Kellie, Bob Milan, Phillip Hay

SCAN Committee 2014

Thank you and

Congratulations to all

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