INSPIRE Prospectus - University of Wales Trinity Saint David

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INSPIRE DELIVERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WALES 5. Waste Management • To commit to reduce the amount of waste year on year and will agree specific targets for recycling in the next waste tender to achieve 70% recycling on campus by 2015 and zero waste to landfill by 2020. We will support local re-use initiatives, ensure recycling bins are located in key locations and undertake a student awareness raising campaign to encourage behaviour change. Particular actions should be taken in relation to food waste as a matter of urgency, e.g. to send food for composting/energy and reintroducing a previous campaign to weigh students' wasted food 6. Travel and Transport • To develop solutions to reduce travel and transport impacts generated by the University through a Green Transport Plan and reduce single occupancy car use including car-parking incentives, car-share and park and ride facilities. We will introduce travel plans predicated on car share/public transport use for all campuses including video conferencing as part of carbon management scheme for travel and introduce cycle to work employee benefit schemes and covered cycle racks. The new university's business travel policy will reflect support for lower emission travel. 7. Biodiversity and landscape • To protect, preserve and enhance the biodiversity on the university estate and review the landscape masterplan already developed for the Lampeter campus to enhance the existing biodiversity and create a mini nature reserve. Tree planting will be undertaken on all campuses wherever possible, to manage land to create wildlife corridors. We will look to create allotment opportunities and enhanced local facilities contributing to biodiversity. 8. Resource Use • to reduce water consumption and actively look at ways to enhance water retention eg rainwater harvesting 9. Engaging Staff and Students and Achieving Behaviour Change • to develop initiatives that engage staff and students in understanding how they can reduce their consumption of resources and cut carbon emissions, and specifically encourage People and Planet representation in the student body structures and to encourage staff/students to participate in the new Sustainable Development Group. 10. Monitoring and audit procedures • We will use existing committee structures to report regularly to the Senior Management Team, the Senate and the University Council and to encourage similar reporting structures within the Students' Union 14 | www.tsd.ac.uk
DELIVERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WALES INSPIRE 7. Engagement, Advocacy and Leadership Commitment: • The university commits to the corporate social responsibility agenda; recognises its role in promoting the sustainability agenda across south west Wales and more broadly, welcomes opportunities to participate in sustainability partnerships and seeks opportunities for national and international engagement with the sustainability agenda through collaboration with other institutions • The University commits itself to using Fairtrade produce and to supporting the annual Fairtrade fortnight in partnership with others • The Regional Learning Partnership will undertake a sustainability impact audit to underpin a regional vision around sustainable development issues • The University will specifically look for partnerships with local authorities, voluntary organisations and businesses in relation to sustainability • The University Sustainable Development Group will identify which external awards are most appropriate to reflect activity The university has been active in developing partnerships with the student communities on both campuses and now needs to develop this relationship further in the context of developing the sustainability agenda. This has included a commitment to supporting Fairtrade events and in particular the annual Fairtrade fortnight. The University intends to formalise partnerships for sustainability with the Students' Unions on each campus through a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure that there is a clear strategic partnership message. The university is also looking to develop constructive relationships with local authorities, local businesses and local representative structures of voluntary organisations to link their activity to learning opportunities through the Regional Learning Partnership. Through its commitment to the Regional Learning Partnership, the university, with its partners, will jointly develop a vision for how we understand our inter-relationships around sustainable development issues and, once this is achieved, to publish that vision. The vision will be underpinned by an action plan and a performance measurement system to guide partners' activities in this area. The university intends to recognise and promote the economic benefit that is generated by Trinity Saint David University and to engage our local community in a dialogue about how to ensure that this benefit is maintained. The University intends to pilot this approach with an economic, social and environmental study of its impact in Lampeter to inform a potential partnership on joint aims with Transition Llanbedr Pont Steffan. Trinity Saint David University's commitment to this agenda means that it will be able to act as an exemplar of sustainable development practice in Wales and more widely and to promote the principles of sustainable development at international, national, regional and local levels. By taking the necessary steps to embed sustainability at the heart of the institution's core mission, the university is creating an enhanced opportunity for our students and staff to recognise and tackle imaginatively unsustainable practices. Having sustainability at the core of our vision will enable us to provide a general reference point, language and concepts for all students to engage across their disciplinary experience. Our goal is that our educational activities lead to a more promising and secure future within a more socially just, healthy, prosperous and biodiverse world. Over time, we would expect the university to gain substantial recognition for its commitment. We will actively participate in key external rewards systems. At a glance, this will enable us to achieve national and international recognition for what we aim to do and strengthen the University's credibility in this field. www.tsd.ac.uk | 15
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