Over the last year we have worked with Arup, the sustainable development organisation, to understand our climate impact. We now have a comprehensive Carbon Management Tool to help us accurately track our progress against our targets and ensure evidence-based decisions. 

We can track our energy use and environmental impacts, building by building. Each year we will publicly report on progress against our targets. We know that transparency, urgency and evidence are key to driving change. We have been making good progress to embed more sustainable approaches, with environmental management systems in place, a £250m Campus Plan that will help us to meet our commitment to Net Zero by 2030, a growing offer of carbon literacy training, and regionally focused academic collaborations, focused on more sustainable partnerships. 

We have already been proactively recording and reducing Scopes 1 and 2 for several years, with a steep reduction of 44% since 2015.