Does Royal Veterinary College have a publicly available environmental policy? Yes: estates.rvc.ac.uk/Sustainability/Sustainability-and-environmental-policy

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Is it reported on annually at a senior level? Yes

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Does it set SMART targets reduce environmental impacts in all the following areas?:

• Transport: Yes
• Biodiversity: Yes
• Community involvement: No
• Construction and refurbishment: Yes
• Emissions and discharges: Yes
• Sustainable procurement: Yes
• Waste: Yes
• Water: Yes

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Royal Veterinary College has audited its environmental impacts in the following areas within the last five years (0.5 points for each area):

• Biodiversity: No
• Construction and refurbishment: No
• Emissions and discharges: Yes
• Energy: Yes
• Sustainable procurement: No
• Transport: Yes
• Waste: Yes
• Water: Yes

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Does Royal Veterinary College operate an externally audited Environmental Management System (e.g. ISO14001, EMAS, Ecocampus, Green Dragon, IEMA Acorn Scheme [BS8885])?

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Does Royal Veterinary College have a publicly available ethical investment policy? No

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Is the publicly available ethical investment policy reported on annually and/or are there ongoing opportunities for staff, students and other stakeholders to engage with the policy? No

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Has Royal Veterinary College, on ethical grounds: a) divested, b) invested, c) engaged with companies as a shareholder, or d) changed banking provider in the last year? No

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Does Royal Veterinary College have a publicly available Carbon Management Plan which meets the Carbon Trust and Capital Investment Framework requirements? estates.rvc.ac.uk/getattachment/b52db248-faff-4398-863d-13d58dc9e60c/RVC-CMP-2010.aspx

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How ambitious is Royal Veterinary College’s average annual % carbon reduction target (calculated from an institution’s short-term targets from a 2005 baseline)

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The scope of Royal Veterinary College’s carbon management plan baseline & targets includes emissions from the following areas:

• Procurement : No
• Staff and student business trips e.g. flights to conferences and field trips: Yes
• Staff and students commuting to university on a daily basis: No
• Carbon emissions associated with the travel between students’ homes and the university at the start and end of term (including international students’ travel to and from their home country) : No

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Is Royal Veterinary College an accredited Fairtrade University with the Fairtrade Foundation. Yes

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Does Royal Veterinary College have a joint staff/student steering group with the remit of going beyond Fairtrade and increasing the sustainability of all procurement categories? No

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Is Royal Veterinary College affiliated to the Worker Rights Consortium, in order to monitor the suppliers and parts of its garment supply chains that are not covered by Fairtrade certification? No

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Does Royal Veterinary College have a publicly available Sustainable Food policy which sets specific timebound targets for improvements? estates.rvc.ac.uk/Sustainability/Sustainable-Eating

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Is the sustainable food policy reported on annually at a senior level? Yes

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Royal Veterinary College is implementing the following sustainable food practices or is working towards Soil Association Food for Life catering mark:

• only purchasing/using free-range eggs Yes

• only purchasing/using sustainable fish Yes

• Menus change with the availability of seasonal produce Yes

• not selling bottled water through its hospitaility services No

• purchasing 100% organic milk No

• less and better meat No

• working towards Food for Life accreditation with the Soil Association No

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Royal Veterinary College purchases 0.00% of its electricity from renewable sources.

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Royal Veterinary College generates 0 kWh of its energy by Combined Heat and Power (CHP).

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Royal Veterinary College generates 0.00% energy on-site from Low or Zero-Carbon energy sources.

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Royal Veterinary College recycles 49.10% of its total waste.

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Royal Veterinary College produces 597.53 kg of waste per head

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Royal Veterinary College's average carbon emissions per head is 3197.47kg CO₂eq

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Royal Veterinary College has increased its emissions since 2005 by 45.79%

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Royal Veterinary College uses 34.59kl water per head.

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3.5258% of Royal Veterinary College's water comes from grey or rain water sources.

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