By Lina Skarabis (UCC Green Campus Secretary 18/19, UCCSU Environmental Officer 19/20) In 2010, UCC was proud to have been the first University in the world to be awarded a Green Flag from An Taisce on behalf The Foundation for Environmental Education. The Green Campus Programme focuses on environmental education and sustainable development on campus, [...]
Save our Species – Local Actions Global Impact On Monday April 22nd is International Earth Day 2019 with this year's theme being "Save our Species". From the smallest insects to the largest mammals, alarming facts are being reported daily on the decline of the world’s species. Ireland is not immune, with for example 37 of our [...]
UCC Hosts UI Green Metric International Workshop UCC played host to the 2019 Annual International Workshop on UI GreenMetrics which addressed the theme of “Sustainable University in a Changing World: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities.” UCC was privileged to welcome over 100 international delegates from 30 different countries across the globe to this important event. Delegates attended [...]
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UCC's first Annual Sustainability Report, dealing progress against the Sustainability Strategy for Academic Year 2017/18 can be accessed by clicking on the image below.
We are delighted to release our first UCC Green Talk Podcast! Launching this Autumn, we aim to release podcasts covering a variety of sustainability issues, both in UCC and further afield. As tests carried out in Cork City found concentrations levels of PM2.5 (as high as London on the same day) we decided to do a [...]
University College Cork has become the first institution outside of North America to achieve a gold star rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). UCC now joins Princeton, Cornell and UC Berkeley in receiving the highest standard, Gold ‘Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System’ (STARS) for excellence in sustainability. [...]
Our Green Campus newsletter for Summer 2018 can be viewed by clicking on the image below. We hope you enjoy it, and if you have any feedback/suggestions then please just get in touch.
UCC Green Campus Intern, Killian Kelly, on what the new EU-wide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides might mean for UCC's newest residents. The Problem The past decade has seen widening concern globally over the sudden plummet in bee populations. Although a number of possibilities behind such drastic declines were argued, little agreement could be found by the vast amount of [...]
Click on the image below to access our Green Campus newsletter for Spring 2018 and see what we have been up to since Christmas! Read about the activities of our student climate ambassadors, an update on the university wide module in sustainability, and many more activities that have taken place over the last three months. [...]