Sustainability
Who we are:
Energy & Sustainability Director
Head of Sustainability
Head of Decarbonisation
What we do:
Energy and carbon management
The University of Reading is a leader in reducing its carbon emissions. We have successfully delivered many different carbon management programmes, from smart sockets, insultation upgrades, LED lighting, improved metering through to solar panel installations on campus buildings. We have ambitious future targets and award winning Net Zero Carbon Plan.
Waste and resource use
The University aims to be an efficient user of resources and prevent waste being created in the first place. We also want to encourage the reuse of items, recycling and recovery of materials. We want to empower our staff, students and local community to minimise their impact upon the environment.
Sustainable travel
The University is committed to supporting and encouraging more sustainable travel behaviour by our staff, students and visitors. We offer a range of offers and advice to make sustainable travel as easy and affordable as possible.
Behaviour change
We are passionate about involving our whole University community in sustainability. We support this in a range of different ways; running engaging events, delivering sustainability training, supporting the embedding of sustainable development into our curriculum to delivering the Our Future First behaviour change programme.
Highlights:
- We operate a combined environmental and energy management system, certified to ISO14001 and ISO50001 standards.
- The Our Future First programme supports our vision of becoming the greenest University in the world by seeking to embed sustainability into our everyday actions, decision making and culture
- 100% of our grid electricity is from renewable sources
- Our Whiteknights campus is award winning, with over 2000 different species living here