2015/16 Sustainable City Annual Report

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Creating a Sustainable City Annual Report 2015/16

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President’s foreword This is the fourth Sustainability Report, compiled by City’s Sustainability Team, which provides a broad review of the sustainability activities we have undertaken during 2015/16.

City is committed to embedding sustainability within all of its activities – playing a leading role in promoting sustainability both locally and globally as one of our key values.

Using this approach City’s ESD initiatives will:

Our aim is to fulfil this, not only by reducing our carbon emissions and ensuring that our facilities are built to the highest sustainability standards but also through our commitment to behaviour change and Education for Sustainable Development.

• Focus on areas such as – The formal curriculum – Informal learning and curricula – Campus sustainability.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) involves the recognition and infusing of sustainability, through formal and informal means, in learning, teaching, curriculum design, research and student-led activities.

• Take account of disciplinary differences • Illustrate different mechanisms for its promotion and application

We hope this report will help to communicate the sustainability message to our staff, students and all City stakeholders and look forward to continuing our journey towards a sustainable future.

Professor Sir Paul Curran President

Performance at a glance Met Partially met Not met

31% 46%

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Sustainability Strategy 2016

In order to deliver an education centred approach to sustainability across all of our activities, we have identified measurement methodologies which assess performance across the Formal, Informal and Campus Curricula.

Measurement Methodology

Description

ISO 14001

ISO 14001 is an internationally recognised standard for the assessment of Environmental Management Systems. The retention of ISO 14001 accreditation will demonstrate the level to which City has identified all of its environmental risks, their subsequent management through policies and procedure, legal compliance and following its revision in 2015, the extent to which environmental management is embedded across the institution.

People and Planet University League

AUDE Green Scorecard

City have participated in the People and Planet ranking system since its inception in 2009. The university league measures environmental performance, whilst also assessing wider sustainability aspects, such as Education, Food Policy, Procurement and Ethical Investment.

Developed by the Association of University Directors of estates (AUDE), the Green Scorecard is based on annual information submitted as part of the Estate Management Record (EMR). The Scorecard, therefore concentrates on core environmental performance and allows benchmarking against other universities.

Embedding Sustainability

University Strategy Sustainability Vision Statement Environmental Sustainability Policy

Formal

Informal

Curriculum and Research

Campus

Carbon Management Waste Management Water Construction and Maintenance Transport and Travel Biodiversity

The adoption of these three methodologies generates 13 measurement areas by which sustainability performance can be measured across the institution.

The diagram on the right shows the 13 proposed measurement areas.

Sustainable Food and Fairtrade Ethical Investment Workers' Rights Sustainable Procurement Environmental Management Stakeholder Engagement

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Construction and Maintenance

Carbon Management 2015/16 Target

2015/16 Target

Reduce annual carbon emissions by 2.5%.

Maintain minimum 80% recycling rate from all construction projects.

Result: Not met 33% reduction against 2005/06 baseline:

Minimum requirement of SKA (an environmental assessment method, benchmark and standard) silver on all refurbishments.

14000

Result: Met

Tonnes CO2/annum

12000

Total construction waste 216 tonnes.

10000

Recycling rate 96.42%.

8000 6000 Baseline reduction Actual reduction Target reduction

4000 2000

All projects achieved SKA Silver at design stage.

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19/20

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Academic year

Carbon reduction of 2% was achieved despite the inclusion of new sites.

Utilities cost up by 15%.

Percentage of renewable energy 91%.

2016/17 target • M aintain minimum 90% recycling rate from all construction projects • M inimum requirement of SKA silver at Design and Handover.

Waste Management 2015/16 target

2016/17 target • 2% reduction year on year by the end of 2016/17.

Increase the total recycling rate to 65% by the end of July 2016 (includes an increase to 50% at Cass and 50% at The City Law School).

Result: Not met

11.35 tonnes CO2 saved.

2015/16

2014/15

Waste for incineration

Glass

2015/16

2014/15

2014/15

Confidential waste

26 tap water locations.

2015/16

20,000 litres of tap 4 water dispensed.

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Dry recycling

50

Water consumption costs down by 1.9%.

Food waste

2014/15

100

ater consumption W down by 3.6%.

40,000 water 8 bottles not sent to landfill.

2015/16

2015/16

150 2015/16

Result: Met

200

Bulky waste

Achieve 2.5% reduction in consumption by 31st July 2016.

Tonnes

250

2015/16 Target

2014/15

300

2014/15

350

Water

Recycling rate City, University of London

63.6%

Cass Business School

45.6%

City Law School

31.1%

2016/17 targets 2016/17 target • Reduce water consumption across all sites by 5%.

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• A chieve a minimum 65% recycling rate across campus • A chieve a 55% recycling rate at the Cass Business School and The City Law School.

Biodiversity

Sustainable Food and Fairtrade 2015/16 target

2015/16 target

Establish a Bee Club to enable staff and student engagement with biodiversity projects on campus.

Catering contractors to retain Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) chain of custody certification.

Result: Met

Result: Partially met

Two bee hives installed.

24 student and staff members of the Bee Team.

Sodexo retained certification for the Northampton Square campus.

Lexington have yet to achieve certification.

2015/16 target Establish a Gardening Club to enable staff and student engagement with biodiversity projects on campus.

2015/16 target Complete biannual food waste audits of the catering kitchens.

Result: Not met The campus garden will be demolished as part of the Sebastian Street Project.

Result: Not met Audits were not completed. Sodexo have implemented an electronic waste monitoring system.

2015/16 target

2015/16 target

Develop a framework for embedding biodiversity considerations in to all relevant projects delivered in 2015/16.

Catering contractors to undertake Sustainable Restaurant Association audits and complete action to achieve a one star rating.

Result: Met

Result: Partially met

Two SKA assessors completed higher education assessor training, including a Biodiversity Good Practice Measure.

Lexington achieved a two star Sustainable Restaurant Association rating.

2016/17 targets • 5 0% of relevant refurbishment projects to target the ecology Good Practice Measure • Increase membership of the Bee Team by 30%.

Sodexo achieved a Bronze Food for Life rating.

2016/17 target • A chieve one overall Sustainable Restaurant Association rating for City.

Transport and Travel City conducts a staff and student travel survey every two years.

2014/15 results 22% of the respondents for the staff survey walk to City.

12% of the respondents for the staff survey cycle to City.

73% of the respondents for the student survey use the Underground to travel to City.

2016/17 target • 6 0% of international travel to be booked via central travel management agency.

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Environmental Management

Workers' Rights

Our Environmental Management System (EMS) remains certified to the international standard ISO 14001; ensuring we remain legally compliant, are continually improving our sustainability performance and embedding environmental management practices across the institution.

City is committed to exceeding the statutory minima for the majority of the terms and conditions of service for our staff. This includes a commitment that all staff are paid at a level above the London Living Wage and that contractors with staff working on City’s premises ensure those staff are paid at the level of the London Living Wage.

Ethical Investment

Curriculum and Research

2016/17 target

City aims to, where appropriate, align it's curriculum with the wider aims of sustainable development. To this end City has mapped its curricular and research output against the three pillars of Sustainable Development.

Establish and publish City's position in regard to ethical investment and divestment.

Courses referencing Sustainability 20

Sustainable Procurement

18

2015/16 target Achieve level 4 in all areas of the Flexible Framework.

Result: Partially met

16

Economy Environment Social

14 12 10 8 6

Achieved level 4 in the ‘People’ and ‘Procurement process’ criteria.

Achieved level 3 in the ‘Policy, Strategy & Communications’, ‘Engaging suppliers’ and ‘Measurements & Results’ criteria.

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CASS

CLS

SOASS

SMCSE

SHS

The three pillars of sustainable development City’s research outputs against sustainable development criteria.

2016/17 targets • D evelop a robust process for Sustainability involvement in relevant tenders.

• Achieve level 4 in all areas of the Flexible Framework and set up the building blocks to aim for Level 5 for 2017/18.

50

CASS

SASS Economy Environment Social

40

30

20

SMCSE

LAW

SHS

10

0

2016/17 target • C omplete review of curricular output by July 2017 • R EF submission to reviewed in 2020.

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Stakeholder Engagement

Sustainable City Challenge

2015/16 target

The Sustainable City Challenge is a new in-house staff engagement programme that gives staff the opportunity to make their departments and the whole of City more sustainable. Staff could take part in monthly challenges and organise their own Extra Mile projects (campaigns, events or activities that have a positive impact on the environment or society).

Develop a sustainability strategy which supports the sustainability vision approved by City.

Result: Met Sustainability Strategy draft approved in July 2016.

Sustainability Leaders Sustainability Leaders work with the Sustainability team to deliver engagement projects on campus and in the community.

2015/16 target Establish a baseline for staff engagement with the Sustainable City Challenge.

Result: Met 470 staff participated at least once in the Sustainable City Challenge.

2015/16 target Establish a baseline of student engagement with the Sustainability Leaders programme.

12 Extra Mile Projects completed by staff.

2016/17 target

Result: Met

• 6 00 unique participants in the Sustainable City Challenge.

Eleven students applied for the Sustainability Leaders Programme and delivered the following projects:

Sustainable City Week

Fairtrade workshops for 56 year 4 children from a local primary school.

Clothing recycling on main campus. So far six bags have been sent to TRAID for recycling.

331 students signed up to the sustainability mailing list and had the opportunity to participate in one-off volunteering opportunities.

2016/17 target • F ifteen students to complete a project as part of the Sustainability Leader programme.

ity celebrated the C 7th Sustainable City Week (formerly Green City Week).

ver 15 events, stalls O and activities were held throughout the week.

ighlights included the Halloween-themed H Cycle Cinema, the Great City Bake-off and the very popular Crispy Critters stall; aimed at raising awareness on how insects could form part of sustainable diets.

2016/17 target • D evelop and deliver a programme of events for staff and students during Sustainable City Week.

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