Going Greener: creating Transition Universities


The Going Greener campaign has been designed to build on the original Go Green campaign demands. These 4 factors have been shown to be crucial to consistent improvements in environmental management:

People & Planet’s Transition Vision

A mass student and staff movement will pioneer and drive forward the higher education sector’s transition to a low-carbon, lower energy future, leading other sectors by example.

Check our where your uni came in the latest Green League which ranks all UK universities according to their low-carbon transition status.

going greener action guide

Start the transition today - download our Transition University Workbook

What is a Transition University?

Transition is about staff and students at universities coming together and going greener for themselves.

Universities have a key role to play in the UK’s transition to a low-carbon future. Yet, too many of our learning institutions have been slow and ineffective in their response to climate change. Many unis have made huge improvements by meeting the demands of People & Planet’s award-winning Go Green campaign but the carbon emissions and energy consumption of their estates and communities are still responsible for a large chunk of the UK’s climate change impact. Transition calls everyone in the university community to come together to change this.

Students across the UK are coming together to build transition communities - will you join the movement?


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