Working together to embed sustainability
Embedding sustainability across
UEL will make it a cleaner, greener, kinder and safer place to learn, live and
work. It is not just about doing the right thing for our environment, it will
benefit us all. So we will all help to put sustainability at the very heart of
who we are and what we do each day because seeing sustainability as a nice to
have, a catch phrase or a fad, will not allow our staff, students and community
to reap the full rewards and opportunities that a sustainable university will
bring.
In practical terms this means
that we need to bring all our people together. Sustainability will underpin the
decisions made and actions taken by every one of our staff and students each
day; whether this be what we teach and research, what we buy, what we use, how
we travel to university or how we promote the message of sustainability in our
community, this is about working as a team and stretching and challenging
ourselves to do better.
To succeed, we need to set up
governance structures, management systems, policies, plans and procedures that
will ensure we effectively track our progress and keep our house in order. But
mostly, our schools and services need to work collaboratively and embrace the
ways in which their work fits into and contributes to UEL´s vision of
sustainability.
Our Working together to embed sustainability pledges:
- We will create governance and management structures that drive sustainability forward and create a culture of accountability across all schools and services;
- We will have a dedicated teams who coordinate our joint efforts;
- We will embed sustainability into all our teaching, research and operations;
- We will establish and support discussion forums and collaborative networks that generate new ideas;
- We will develop and maintain effective management systems that allow us to track our continual improvement.
See our action plan to find out how we will make these happen. (Coming soon)