The HE sector is now focused on efficiency and resilience. Sustainability is a critical element to both of these. How can you keep your sustainability ambitions on track in the real context of your institution?
Sustainable operations are resilient operations: climate and sustainability risks to campuses, operations, people and supply chains are material and carry large potential costs of loss and damage if not addressed.
SUMS will partner with you to:
  • develop cross-the-board sustainability strategy, keeping your sustainability ambitions on track in the real context of your institution
  • support your carbon emissions baselining and calculations and develop decarbonisation plan (or transition plan) to achieve net zero carbon emissions
  • support you with compliance through environmental management systems
  • manage climate risk and adaptation to climate change
  • help you to understand and manage risks and dependencies on nature and biodiversity.

 

See how we’ve supported other institutions with their sustainability strategies

The Royal Society – From baselining to strategy: developing an evidence-based
agenda for environmental sustainability 

The Society, which has made major contributions to advancing knowledge and solutions towards a sustainable future, wished to understand its baseline position across the key dimensions of environmental sustainability in its own operations and develop an ambitious strategic agenda
towards making its operation sustainable.

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Oxford Brookes University – Developing a programme for reducing scope 3 carbon emissions

The University wanted to identify the key leverage points for managing scope 3 emissions, and develop a framework for reduction with reference to specific actions, and the roles of overall governance and culture.

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University of Essex – Spurring transformation and culture change for a sustainable university 

This assignment, delivered in partnership with EAUC, brought together SUMS’ disciplines around sustainability, transformation and change management. he University of Essex now has a framework for integrating culture change and change management into its institution-wide mission of becoming a sustainable university.

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SUMS consultant presenting about the university shared mission

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Understanding the benefits and costs of what universities do

Overcoming net zero paralysis

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