Greening Universities Toolkit- Transforming Universities into Green and Sustainable Campuses

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Publication date: 2013

Universities have a particular responsibility both to help define and also to become exemplars of environmental best practice.  The focus of this Toolkit is to provide University staff and students with a selection of strategies, tools and resources, gleaned from the literature, from global case studies and from practice which are intended to inspire, encourage and support Universities to develop and implement their own transformative strategies for establishing green, resource-efficient and low carbon campuses. In turn, it is hoped the “green campus” will help inform the “green curriculum”, and extending beyond institutional boundaries, help to catalyse more sustainable communities.

This Toolkit is part of a wider Greening Universities Initiative established through UNEP’s Environmental Education and Training Unit, in collaboration with other UN agencies, under the umbrella of the recently formed Global Universities Partnership for Environment and Sustainability (GUPES). GUPES brings together over 100 Universities from across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, West Asia, Europe, and North America. At its core is the role Universities can foster for critical thinking, for example on emerging ethics and values towards the next generation of planetary leadership.