{"id":6839,"date":"2016-12-08T05:48:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2016-12-08T05:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:48:38","slug":"universities-struggle-to-meet-green-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/12\/08\/universities-struggle-to-meet-green-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities struggle to meet green goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian's headline over its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2016\/nov\/22\/universities-green-goals-environmental-targets-people-planet-league\">report<\/a> on People 'n' Planet's new league table was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Universities struggle to meet green goals<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Specifically, they reported this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"UK universities are helping lead the world on environmental research \u2013 but when it comes to their own back yard they appear to be falling behind. \u00a0Only a quarter are on track to meet their carbon reduction targets by 2020. \u00a0Teams leading environmental initiatives are being cut and sustainability strategies have not been renewed, according to the results of the\u00a02016 People &amp; Planet University League, ...\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm rather surprised it's as high as 25%, given how hard it is to make these cuts, never mind doing so whilst expanding\u00a0as a sector. \u00a0Since these targets were established\u00a0by HEFCE\u00a0(when it was interested in carbon), the huge number of additional students in the system has only been\u00a0matched by the rate of new building. \u00a0Indeed, some\u00a0who can recall\u00a0the discussions, may think that those in HEFCE who remember or care will be pleasantly surprised\u00a0by the 25%. \u00a0But then, those who remember have left, and they were the ones who cared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian's headline over its report on People 'n' Planet's new league table was: Universities struggle to meet green goals Specifically, they reported this: \"UK universities are helping lead the world on environmental research \u2013 but when it comes to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}