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Manchester Univ. published over 22,000 pieces of research on SDGs in 5 years
A report by the Manchester University has published more than 22,000 pieces of research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past five years, which is 4% of the UK’s entire share of publications.
It details teaching and learning programs that address the SDGs, such as the ‘Creating a Sustainable World’ interdisciplinary unit.
As the UK’s first university to have social responsibility as a core goal, the Manchester has developed a strategy to tackle the SDGs in four inter-related ways: research, learning and students, public engagement and operations.
Assessing impact on sustainable development involves complex methodological challenges and limitations. However, a range of indicators point to a compelling assessment of our performance.
In the Times Higher Education Impact rankings, based on performance across 17 SDGs, the university is the top ranked institution in the UK and in Europe. The university is the only university in the world to feature in the global top 10 each year since the rankings were established in 2019.
The Manchester University is also proud to be the top performing institution in Europe for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings.
This report is aimed at a wide range of local, national and international audiences across the public, private, NGO, policy and education sectors. The university hopes to stimulate further ideas, actions, collaboration opportunities and partnerships so that, together, “we can play a full role in tackling the world’s SDGs by 2030.”
The university undertakes interdisciplinary research to support more sustainable consumption and production patterns. Our Sustainable Consumption Institute works across consumption, cultural change, innovation, politics, and social justice in areas such as food, energy, housing, and transport.
Its work in sustainable industrial systems uses advanced chemical engineering to identify sustainable solutions on a life cycle basis.
Its Sustainable Futures platform, Energy Beacon, Manchester Environmental Research Institute, Manchester Urban Institute, Global Development Institute and Tyndall Manchester Center are examples of research structures that are changing policies and practice to combat climate change and mitigate its impacts. This spans natural sciences, engineering and social sciences, and supports research impact in energy systems, carbon budgets and pathways, the water energy food nexus, renewables and future fuels.
The university is committed to becoming a zero-carbon university by 2038 for Scope 1 and 2 emissions. This means it needs to reduce our carbon emissions by an average of 13% each year. Its Scope 1 and 2 emissions have fallen by 36% since 2007. As part of this “we are implementing a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (cPPA) in 2025, by which its electricity demand will be matched by a developer generating additional renewable energy on our behalf.”
It has also set a net-zero target for its Scope 3 emissions (which are emitted as an indirect result of its activities) by 2050. It has halved emissions from air travel since 2019.
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