INTRODUCTION Professor Michael Harkin Vice-Chancellor and Principal The past year has seen us lay firm foundations for sustainable development across University College Birmingham, culminating in this strategy which brings that work together with clarity and purpose. Building on our Strategic Plan 2025–2030, sustainability is now a core strand of delivery: shaping our campus, informing our curriculum and guiding how we work with our wider community. Birmingham faces challenges familiar to many cities – from flooding and heatwaves to air quality, noise, and unequal access to green space. As an institution rooted in this region, we feel these issues directly, and our responsibility to respond. Our role in developing future talent has never been more important. As the economy transitions, cleaner and greener industries will increasingly define high-quality employment, and will guide the work-readiness and character needed for our graduates and college leavers to succeed. Vocational training and practical skills will sit at the heart of this shift. We are well-placed to equip our students with the technical and academic capability, and personal character, needed to thrive in a changing labour market, while enabling them to live and learn sustainability as part of their everyday experience at University College Birmingham and beyond. This strategy sets out our progress and next steps on that journey. This strategy will guide University College Birmingham from 2025 to 2030 and applies across the full breadth of our activity, including teaching, professional services, operations, campus facilities and student accommodation. Our sustainability strategy supports a number of ambitious strategic goals across the organisation. Therefore, it has been shaped with reference to sector standards set by membership and framework bodies, such as the Universities UK Accommodation Code, the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges, the Association of the University Director of Estates to ensure a responsible and consistent approach. CONTENTS OUR JOURNEY SO FAR 02 OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD 04 OUR SUSTAINABILITY AMBITION 2025-2030 08 WHAT ARE THE UNITED NATIONS SDGs 10 OUR STRATEGIC PLAN – SUSTAINABILITY AS A CORE DRIVER 12 SUSTAINABILITY – EMBEDDED AND THREADED 14 CAMPUS 16 CURRICULUM 18 COMMUNITY 20 GOVERNANCE 24 MEASURING IMPACT 26 STRATEGY IN ACTION 28 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2025–2030 01 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2025–2030
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