This year’s UK and Ireland Green Gown Awards have announced that the University of Warwick are finalists in three categories of their UK and Ireland Green Gown Awards. Those categories are:

2030 Climate Action

University of Warwick - For carbon emissions removal aligning engineering decarbonisation with science based targets

Benefiting Society

University of Warwick – For closing the loop of circular economy during pandemic to support local community

Campus of the Future

University of Warwick – Green Construction including:

• 80% reduction on deliveries to site (includes less disruption to local traffic routes and reduction in carbon)
• 30% reduction in on site labour (includes less need for journeys to site, less car parking, less waste and works undertaken in factories with closer quality control)
• 370 tonnes of Carbon dioxide captures (includes the timber frame, manufacture and transport)

The University of Warwick’s Provost Chris Ennew welcomed this announcement and reiterated that:

“We have a responsibility as a community and organisation to moderate our individual actions, our research and teaching, and how we run and develop our University. We aim to reach net zero carbon from our direct emissions and the energy we buy by 2030, something that will need the continued commitment of Government and partners, in addition to the University looking inwardly at our own policies, processes and behaviours.

Iain Patton, CEO, of EAUC (The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges) said:

"It is clear from the number and quality of applications, that sustainability and the now irreversible sustainability movement is not only resilient but profoundly energised, opportunistic and dynamic! UK and Irish universities and colleges have turned Covid 19 challenges into opportunities and ensured that every change is a change for sustainability. A reset of our economic and social foundations is happening and the Green Gown Awards are all the more important to inspire and scale change for sustainability. Congratulations to all our Finalists."

This winners of year’s UK and Ireland Green Gown Awards will be announced in November 2021.

For further information please contact:

Peter Dunn, Director of Press and Media Relations:
Mobile: 07767 655860 Email p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk

PJD 9th July 2021

For further information please contact:

Peter Dunn, Director of Press and Media Relations:
Mobile: 07767 655860 Email p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk