Our vision

restrictions. We continued to add renewables to our estate to tackle our energy emissions and during the year that saw the peak of the energy crisis, focused on reducing our operational energy use as much as possible.

Our net zero emissions vision is a BU community that recognises the need to live in harmony with the natural world to protect the survival and wellbeing of all communities and takes action to enrich society for the benefit of people and planet.

This vision and our CECAP aim to support the achievement of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

It’s heartening to see so many people across our BU community working to address the climate and ecological crisis, an effort that has been recognised this year both internally and externally. Our approach includes academics embedding sustainability in their teaching, our operational environmental management systems and capital investment, supporting our students to start businesses to address the crisis and our research which continues to help protect and preserve a sustainable environment. We are committed to continue our approach to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030/31 with everyone in the BU community playing their part.

Professor John Vinney Vice-Chancellor Bournemouth University