12 May 2016 
Jane Harrison-White, Executive Director
The representative body for university estates has launched a comprehensive tool to help UK higher education institutions measure their environmental efforts, set targets and benchmark against each other.
The Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) green scorecard, said to be the first of its kind, has been developed in conjunction with the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), and will focus on topics including energy, transport, water, waste, biodiversity and landscape. It will allow the production of online reports on these subjects to help universities improve their estates and environmental sustainability strategies.
It follows a difficult time for universities’ sustainability efforts, after last year’s highly critical report by consultancy Brite Green showed that English higher education institutions had fallen further behind in their carbon reduction objectives in relation to the 2020 sector target set out by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Trevor Humphreys, chair of AUDE, said that directors of estates were “heavily involved” and committed to the “university sustainability agenda”.
To read the full article, visit the Times Higher Education website.
To visit the Sustainability section of this site and find out more about the Green Scorecard work, click here.
