Hold the Front Page: Bath comes 15th in World Green University League

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This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy.  Bath usually loiters way down the UK's 'green' league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects – some of which are nowhere to be seen – is remarkable.  I expect Bath will treat this in the same way is usually does these things, with a good dose of Kipling.

Some 360 universities from 62 countries took part in this Universitas Indonesia (UI) initiative, which is now in its fifth year.  It ranks universities worldwide on the basis of their campus sustainability and environmental management efforts, under six main categories:

  • Green Statistics (15%)
  • Energy and Climate Change (21%)
  • Waste management (18%)
  • Water usage (10%)
  • Transportation (18%) 
  • Education (18%)

The ranking is:

  1. University of Nottingham | UK
  2. University College Cork National University of Ireland | Ireland
  3. Nottingham Trent University | UK
  4. University of California, Davis | US
  5. University of Oxford | UK
  6. University of Bradford | UK
  7. University of Connecticut | US
  8. Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien | Austria
  9. University of California, Berkeley | US
  10. Northeastern University | US
  11. University of Limerick | Ireland
  12. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | US
  13. University of Plymouth | UK
  14. Universite de Sherbrooke | Canada
  15. University of Bath | UK
  16. Georgia Institute of Technology | US
  17. University of Massachusetts Amherst | US
  18. Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherland
  19. University of Szeged | Hungary
  20. University of Bremen | Germany

I wonder why this is so different from the outcomes usually accruing from P&P.

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