Publications

A report on the current baseline, barriers, opportunities, and most impactful actions for sustainability in learning and teaching - mixed method research with 15 Scottish colleges

The Funding Register is aimed at colleges, universities, students unions/associations and partner charities who might work on sustainability initiatives in partnership with tertiary education organisations. The Funding Register is not exhaustive, but tries to pull together some of the main current funding pots for the sector.

Developed for the Scottish college and university sector, the resource sits alongside the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) PBCCD reporting guidance to help draw out what the PBCCD reporting questions mean/could mean for a college or university context.

This resource package is aimed at creating a standard baseline for post-16 education sector organisations to report on their staff and student commuting emissions.

EAUC Scotland has produced its annual reports analysing Scotland's college and university emissions data returns to Scottish Government for 2022/23. The reports also include recommended areas for improvement and action ahead of November 2024's submissions.

View the many resources from this project to help and support universities and colleges to create woodlands and register for carbon credits.

This blog series aims to set the context for aviation within the tertiary education and research sector, and equip our readers with the solutions available to tackle aviation emissions on our journey to net zero.

Created in collaboration with Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC), the Guide to the APUC Scope 3 Supply Chain Emissions Reporting Tool aims to enable Scottish institutions and UKUPC-affiliated institutions to identify their scope 3 supply chain emissions swiftly and simply.

The Sustainability Champions Learning Pack is a self-directed learning resource which serves as a stepping-stone towards wider sustainability awareness and action.

You can find an overview of the tools and resources currently available to help further and higher education organisations calculate the greenhouse emissions resulting from their supply chain.

The Climate Risk Register Guide and Tool aims to assist institutions in the early stages of their adaptation journey.

In addition to our student-facing resources, the Green Careers Guide, EAUC Scotland have produced some guidance for university and college staff.

By EAUC Scotland, this guide is for everyone who is interested in a career that supports a more sustainable future - for you and the planet!

The toolkit supports governors to address climate change as a strategic business issue and shows how they can help their boards take timely, positive and decisive action to drive a sustainability strategy.

The "Domestic and International Student Relocation Travel Emissions Calculator Tool" provides UK FHE institutions with a user-friendly, prepopulated framework for reporting scope 3 domestic and international student travel at the start and end of the academic year.

A toolkit for education professionals in the further education and skills sector to better understand, promote and embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their teaching and work.

The Calculator's accompanying report, ‘The Cost of Net Zero’, helps us all understand the context, the scale and the nature of the task. It follows the January publication of ‘Accelerating towards net zero’ from the same partnership group led by the Royal Anniversary Trust, and shares methodology with the earlier report.

Published in February 2023, EAUC Scotland’s Business Travel Guide for the Further and Higher Education sector highlights the Scottish policy and social drivers for addressing business travel emissions, and showcases best practice in strategies, reporting and reduction activities.

We are pleased to launch the 2023 Sustainability Leadership Scorecard Annual Report, released by EAUC and AUDE. This shares insights into the current statistics and recent developments of the Sustainability Leadership Scorecard.

The 'Annual SDG Accord Report 2023: Progress towards the Global Goals in the University and College sector' provides a powerful insight and call to action of the last 12 months' developments in the tertiary education sector around the world.

In the light of the 2022 energy crisis, EAUC Scotland has produced this guide for FHE institutions. It focuses on cost savings but, of course, reducing energy will also reduce carbon emissions.

A global alliance of the world’s universities, colleges and sustainability networks has launched the 2022 SDG Accord Report: ‘Progress towards the Global Goals in the University and Colleges Sector'.

The Future Graduate Skills Study examines what ‘sustainability skills’ are, which of those are important for employability prospects, and how they could be best instilled in students and young people.

The Climate Commission will develop an Action Plan in response to the government’s stated climate emergency and draw together a strategic sector-wide approach to the Climate Framework by the end of 2020.Discover the range of useful reports released to support this initiative.

EAUC commissioned this research paper to help Members understand how some in the sector are pushing strategic and structural boundaries, and evolving new approaches to reflect a whole-institution approach to sustainability. As ever, the sector's ambition and creativity is evident throughout this research, as a wide range of approaches have been identified. Each has unique merits yet none are necessarily better than the other, but suit its context. It’s for you to judge which approach might best work in your institution.

Discover a selection of case studies and resources to help students and staff to lobby their institution to provide free sanitary products.

The Travel Better Package aims to support the reduction of air travel in the FHE sector, specifically amongst academics and staff. It also aims to support reflection on and reconfiguration of the FHE sector's relationship to air travel on an institutional and individual basis.

Climate change is not only a risk in itself to operational, teaching and research activities, but also a multiplier of many other risks.

Discover a range of opportunities for sustainability focused applied research and learning.

Sustainability provides exciting opportunities for value creation and risk mitigation and is key to institutional success over the long-term.

Sustainability leaders can make a successful case for sustainability in a Further and Higher Education context, embed sustainability at the top of their organisation and bring about systemic change in the way business decisions are made.

The first annual Sustainability Leadership Scorecard Report summarises data submitted by 45 institutions in the UK and Ireland. Institutions using the tool are clearly able to point to concrete gains from use of the tool, whether in terms of benchmarking to similar institutions, gap analysis, or better high-level reporting of sustainability information.