Warwick ranks 34th place in Green League

The University of Warwick has achieved 34th place in this year’s Green League competition. Warwick was joint 34th place with the University of Edinburgh, and ranked seventh within the Russell Group universities.

The Green League is an annual UK competition, run by student campaigning society People & Planet. It ranks UK universities in order of highest environmental and ethical performance.

Warwick SU announced the ranking on Facebook, thanking student and staff for working towards a more environmentally-friendly Warwick.

“While there is still much to be done in the area of sustainability, we are grateful to the University for already approaching the SU to discuss how it can raise its environmental efforts further, offer support to the SU’s sustainability actions, and improve its own rating again in next year’s league.”

The Green League takes into account issues such as reducing carbon emission, and following environmental policy. Warwick scored particularly high in auditing and Environment Management Systems (100 per cent), staff sustainability (63 per cent) and carbon reduction (63 per cent).

However, Warwick scored zero per cent for workers’ rights and water reduction. Overall Warwick scored 50.8 per cent.

Despite rising 95 places since last year, Peter Dunn, Director of Press and Policy, questions the usefulness of the League in measuring Warwick’s environmental impact. “[The League] has become over ambitious and so complicated in the information it seeks.

“Until now, it hasn’t really been able to take into account how large universities and campus universities will inevitably fare worse in their calculations – however they may perhaps have  found a way of taking that into account this year.”