• Examine why university leadership teams  need to act to address the climate emergency
• Provide the context for university action
• Explore the expectation and demand from students
• Discuss the opportunities provided by the recent QAA / Advance HE Guidance on ESD
• Discuss actions for universities that have been recommended by the Climate Commission for HE and FE
• Examine the contribution of Teaching and Learning, Research, Campus Management and Community Engagement in university climate emergency action

• Launching the annual Global Goals Teach In to call on educators to pledge to include the UN global Goals for Sustainable Development in their teaching and learning
• Making sustainability part of everyday life across universities and colleges and supporting students in adopting responsible behaviours which last beyond their time in education
• Working towards getting sustainable development onto the curriculum of every student across every discipline
• Enabling students’ unions to be hubs of sustainability at the heart of their wider community
• Receiving funding to set up Farming for Carbon and Nature to create and pilot a fiscal model enabling farmers on university and college owned land to transition to more carbon and nature-friendly farming practices

• Driving change both at sector level and within higher education institutions to tackle climate change
• Developing an open programme of public learning through a partnership between the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the BBC and UK Higher Education
• Boosting funding to stimulate research and innovation needed for zero carbon emissions by 2035 and creating a National Green Livelihoods Transition Fund
• Focussing on Universities’ reducing carbon emissions from their day-to-day operations and committing to sustaining biodiversity
• Building alliances between universities and scientists, artists, politics and communities and listening to students

• Helping to develop the understanding behind moving from a ‘compliance’ based design culture to that of a ‘performance’ based culture
• Using simulation software to teach students about Design for Performance using evidence, not just assumptions
• Preparing students for the workplace by providing the knowledge and skills needed by employers
• Becoming a ‘Living Lab’ – collaboration between staff, students and estates teams to apply teaching, research and zero-carbon building management

We're empowering UK businesses to set and deliver against meaningful carbon reduction targets and make an active contribution to the UK’s net-zero ambition by 2030. In our presentation we will cover:

• What net-zero actually means for UK businesses
• The value of a certified 100% renewable electricity supply product
• How to confidently report zero-carbon emissions for the renewable electricity you procure
• Partnering with UK independent renewable generation projects through bespoke contract arrangements (incl. case study example)

• Focusing on Strategic development:
• Climate change
• Carbon targets
• investments
• Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

• Powering the Lanarkshire campus exclusively by renewable energy from a nearby wind farm and solar panels, using rainwater harvesting and incorporating LED lighting that is linked to daylight and occupancy
• Upgrading the building management system at the Paisley campus to control heating more efficiently and saving 200 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year through LEDs
• Conducing 60 sustainability research projects including exploring the legacy of industrial pollution on sustainable economic development
• Encouraging staff and students across the university to become more environmentally conscious and banning single-use plastic bottles
• Drawing up a new Sustainability Plan 2020-2025 to set more ambitious goals for carbon reduction