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People & Planet Green League

October 2022

  • Students and Coventry university building

    100 UK universities pledge to divest from fossil fuels

    Exclusive: move affecting 65% of institutions means endowments worth almost £18bn out of reach for firms

December 2021

  • University students and schoolchildren taking part in a climate march in Brighton in 2019.

    Majority of universities in UK ‘not on track to meet emissions targets’

  • Durham University student accommodation

    How Durham University turned itself green

July 2019

  • Alex Ryan, director of sustainability at the University of Gloucestershire

    University green rankings at risk despite climate emergency

    This year’s People and Planet league table could be the last unless the Office for Students has a change of heart

November 2017

  • The Birley campus at Manchester Metropolitan University

    New university tops green table as Oxbridge lags behind

    Campuses have come a long way in the 10 years of the student-led People & Planet rankings – but there are surprising fails

November 2016

  • Students sit in roof garden at the Newton building at Nottingham Trent University

    Universities struggle to meet green goals

    Government blamed for stalling of energy saving, as People & Planet table reveals 75% of campuses are set to miss carbon targets
  • Reading University

    Guardian Students
    University of Reading rises 42 places up the green league

    Reducing energy consumption on the university estate, switching to clean energy, and monitoring the ethical standards of suppliers, are all ways that universities can rise up the ranks of the green league

  • Eric Schmidt

    Guardian Students
    The only league table where Oxford uni gets a fail

    Oxford University's willingness to accept donations and form partnerships with individuals and businesses that are mired in controversy puts it at the bottom of the ethical league table

  • Student demonstration

    Guardian Students
    Students: it's your duty to have fun and to save the world

    From womens liberation to the campaign against apartheid, throughout history students have led the way in changing the world, says veteran student activist Adam Ramsay

  • Students on Plymouth's environmental science and ocean science degrees in a scuba diving assessment

    The firsts and the 'fails' in the 2013 Green League of universities

  • Students from the Urban Gardening Society at Manchester Metropolitan University

    Ethical studies

  • University of Surrey shows the biggest jump in the Green League this year, up 67 places

    Green League 2012: the biggest rises and falls

    Which universities performed especially well in the Green League this year, and which saw their haloes slip?
  • Free-range hens: using their eggs wins points for universities in the Green League

    Green League 2012: how universities can score points

    It's not just about cutting your carbon emissions - ethical investment and a sustainable food policy are among the criteria for being a green university
  • Kat Thorne, head of sustainability at Greenwich University, which has sold honey from its beehives

    Greenwich tops the university Green League

    There's a new name at the top of this year's People & Planet Green League, but campaigners say the government should do more to help
    • Get the full 2012 data

  • LSE People & Planet Green League carbon emissions

    Emissions rise at UK universities puts 2020 targets in doubt

  • Grant Anderson, environmental officer at Nottingham Trent University, on the 'eco' roof.

    The Green League university tables

  • How to read the Green League table

  • Cycling students

    What do you think of the Green League?

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