UCL wins prestigious climate action award

UCL has been named the winner of the Green Gown Award for Climate Action for our campaign to become a zero-carbon institution by 2030. Launched in October 2019, our Positive Climate initiative puts students and staff at the heart of reducing our carbon footprint with a sector leading commitment to sustainability. As an energy and research-intensive university operating across 250 sites, the campaign aims to deliver a significant shift in the way we operate by combining a people-centric approach with data insights to empower staff and students to protect our planet. K ey elements of the campaign include a £10m investment to deliver zero carbon buildings by 2024, a plan for our university to be powered by 100% UCL owned renewable energy by 2030 and innovative programmes to tackle emissions. UCL's climate action programme is already set to deliver a reduction of 25,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by 2024. That is equivalent to planting 400,000 trees every year. The success comes just months after UCL came top of the University Carbon League table, receiving a score of 95/100, the highest score out of 519 institutions in the UK.