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UCC climbs to 2nd place in green global rankings

17 Jan 2014

UCC鈥檚 approach to sustainability has seen it climb to 2nd place in the Universitas Indonesia (UI) Greenmetric World 深夜亚洲福利久久 Rankings, which released its latest results today.

UCC has improved on its previous position of 3rd place despite a packed field of 301 global competitors. 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Notthingham is ranked in 1st place while Northeastern 深夜亚洲福利久久 in the US changed places with UCC, moving to 3rd place.

Now in its fourth year, the ranking system, which compares the efforts of universities worldwide towards campus sustainability and environment friendly university management, has again seen a marked increase in entries with 301 universities across 61 countries taking part. (A full ranking list available here)

It is the second increase in a row for UCC, the comprehensive university of the south of Ireland, with a 4th place ranking two years ago and it again reaffirms the ongoing commitment towards reducing its environmental impact and remaining a sustainable campus. UCC also retains its 2nd place position in world ranking for a university in an urban campus setting.

Other universities that make the cut include the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of California, Berkeley (14th), 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Melbourne (18th) and Boston 深夜亚洲福利久久 (59th). Other Irish institutions feature on the list, including 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Limerick (29th), Dublin City 深夜亚洲福利久久 (46th), Queens 深夜亚洲福利久久 Belfast (61), Trinity College Dublin (97) and Dublin Institute of Technology (157).

Ranking categories included setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste management, water usage, transportation and education.

President of UCC, Dr Michael Murphy comments: 鈥淥n behalf of 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, I am delighted that our green credentials have again been recognised and that we are now ranked as one of the top two institutions worldwide. The result is a wonderful acknowledgement of the approach taken by UCC and our community of independent thinkers in the area of sustainability and will serve to drive us on even further. This is a great start to 2014鈥�.

UCC has been continuously recognised for its work in the area of campus sustainability over the last number of years. It became the world鈥檚 first Green Flag Campus for third level institutions in 2010, awarded by An Taisce and the Foundation for Environmental Education, an accolade that was renewed in April 2013. Student buy-in from the outset has been pivotal to the success of UCC鈥檚 Green Campus programme, inspiring 鈥淭he student led, research informed and practice focused鈥� mission of our green agenda鈥�, according to Professor John O鈥橦alloran, Head of School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. 鈥淭his mission is underpinned by over 30 courses offered in the area of sustainability, a three year research spend of over 鈧�55m and over 800 scholarly publications published in 2012鈥�.

UCC won an Excellence in Environment award at the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards 2013 held by Chambers Ireland in Dublin. UCC also joined forces with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in November 2012, under its Public Sector Energy Partnership programme. This sees UCC take the lead in contributing to valuable and sustainable energy savings towards the national energy efficiency target of 33% for 2020.

UCC is also accredited as the world鈥檚 first third-level institution to be awarded the IS0 50001 standard in energy management. ISO 50001 enables organisations to establish the systems and processes necessary to improve energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and consumption.

UCC鈥檚 commitment to environmental citizenship continues and further details can be found at

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