Green Impact Gold

Jilly Mowbray, College Sustainability Officer, writes:

At the recent University Green Impact end-of-year celebrations, Keble College was awarded a Gold Award in recognition of the great sustainability work happening across College. This is an improvement on the Silver Award achieved last year, with actions on food sustainability helping to increase our points score. Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme that provides a toolkit of effective actions that staff and students can take to improve sustainability across colleges and the University. Oxford University’s Green Impact Programme is specifically tailored to the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy with headline targets of net zero carbon and biodiversity net gain by 2035. The ethos is about changing behaviours and making physical improvements to our sustainable practices in and around our buildings and college life in general.

The awards have been crafted by the University’s joiners from reclaimed wood that was previously part of bookshelves in the old Radcliffe Science Library, sustainable and linked to the University’s legacy.

Particular thanks go to Amaury Genovese (MCR President) for his hard work on the toolkit submission.