UWE has been officially recertified and awarded the Carbon
Trust Standard which shows we have taken real action on climate change by
reducing our carbon emissions by 3.9% relatively since the footprint year. This is a great recognition of our
achievements in carbon reduction and demonstrates our commitment to reducing
carbon emissions year on year.
The Carbon Trust Standard indicates which organisations can
be trusted to have genuinely acted on climate change and committed to ongoing
emission reductions. It also shows that
we are taking personal responsibility as a University to reducing the carbon
emissions that we are directly responsible for rather than just paying to
off-set our emissions.
Some of the projects that have enabled us to get the Carbon
Trust Standard include investment in LED street lighting, improved insulation,
motion sensitive lighting and lighting improvements, air handling unit
optimisation, the Student Switch Off campaign and many more.
The Carbon Trust Standard requires us to recertify every two years, which means we will continue
to keep working to cut our carbon emissions.
View our Sustainability
pages to learn more about how UWE is tackling climate change and reducing our environmental impact.
