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# SustainableLSE Sustainability Strategic Plan launch event 21 st October 2020 Your hosts Minouche Shafik Prof Nicholas Stern Charles Joly Director, LSE Chair, Grantham Institute Head of Sustainability, LSE on Climate Change and the
Sustainability Strategic Plan launch event
21st October 2020
Your hosts
Minouche Shafik
Director, LSE
Prof Nicholas Stern
Chair, Grantham Institute
the Environment at LSE
Charles Joly
Head of Sustainability, LSE
Event plan
Minouche Shafik Director, LSE Welcome remarks
Watch Minouche Shafik’s short intro video at https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/20201510_su stainabilityStrategicPlanPromoVideoLong.mp4 Watch the video
LSE sustainability consultation
Events and workshops
7
Thank you to all the staff and students who contributed teams
Staff & students attending
327
Respondents to online survey
668
and more…
LSE sustainability consultation Themed workshops
Education Research Investments The Role of Staff and Students The role of carbon
Reducing our carbon footprint
LSE’s approach to environmental sustainability is important to me
LSE sustainability consultation Online survey You told us:
95%
I am willing to make or accept changes to my LSE life to support sustainability
93%
LSE’s carbon footprint : most important aspect of our environmental performance
70%
Key priority area for LSE research on sustainability? Changing environmental behaviours How can LSE influence discussions around sustainability? Getting involved in policy-making LSE should mitigate the impacts of its current carbon emissions using offsets
86%
A plan shaped by the LSE community
Sustainability Advisory Group
Made of staff & students
Sustainability team
LSE sustainability consultation Workshops, online survey, discussions with groups and individuals Sustainability Strategic Plan
6 themes + set of principles + practical initiatives Various LSE divisions and departments
Sustainability Strategic Plan
Six key areas of focus to maximise our impact in shaping a sustainable world
Education
Embedding sustainability across our teaching and learning experiences
Research
Shaping the global sustainability debate through our research
Engagement & Leadership
Deepening public discussion on sustainability across the world
Collaboration
Working in partnerships within LSE and externally
Our School
Becoming net-zero carbon and reducing our environmental impacts
Investment
Making sustainability a key part of our investment decisions
Embedding sustainability across
Education
Watch Dilly Fung’s short video online at https://media.rawvoice.com/lse_sustainablelse/rich media.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/20201015_sustainab ilityStrategicPlanEducation.mp4 Watch the video
Education
Professor Dilly Fung
LSE Pro-Director for Education
LSE will embed sustainability across our teaching and learning experiences.
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Education
Provide educators with tools to embed sustainability across disciplines. Showcase and reward innovative sustainability teaching and learning practices. Support proactively the creation of new multidisciplinary courses, as part of wider School curriculum development.
For staff:
Education
Enhance opportunities for all students to engage with sustainability themes and develop a range of sustainability-related skills. Create opportunities for students to connect with employers and alumni to explore new and emerging career pathways. Empower students to showcase publicly their sustainability-related learning and perspectives.
For students:
Education
An extra-curricular learning experience available to all LSE students & staff
in partnership with
Get involved in sustainability themed webinars, challenges and competitions and become a certified Sustainability Advocate!
Exploring CLIMATE JUSTICE
Shaping the global sustainability debate through our research
Research
Watch Simon Hix’s short video online at https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/2020101 6_sustainabilityStrategicPlanResearch.mp4 Watch the video
Research
Professor Simon Hix
LSE Pro-Director for Research
LSE will shape the global sustainability debate through our research.
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Research
Strengthen the Grantham Research Institute’s role as a School- wide vehicle for collaborative research and impact on environmental sustainability. Make sustainability research a key strategic area when seeking funding and philanthropic support. Leverage our existing external partnerships and develop new partnerships to step up LSE’s contribution to global sustainability research and debate.
Research
Support research which actively engages policy makers and society in the co-production of knowledge and research on sustainability. Continue current momentum towards online research activities to reduce the carbon impact of research-related travel. Initiatives to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration at LSE and beyond
eg: brown bag lunch sessions, research seminar, undergraduate edited sustainability journal, conferences, training modules.
Deepening public discussion on sustainability across the world
Working with range institutions in UK and internationally to inform and engage decision-making on sustainability.
Engagement & Leadership
Working in partnerships within LSE and externally
Collaboration
Watch Julia Black’s short video online at https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/2020101 5_sustainabilityStrategicPlanCollaboration.mp4 Watch the video
Collaboration
Professor Julia Black
Strategic Director of Innovation
LSE will work in partnerships within LSE and externally.”
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Collaboration
LSE
Staff & students embedding sustainability in their departments/divisions
Over 10 years running
Collaboration
Working in partnership with students
Environment & Ethics officer Sustainability themed societies Meeting as a group Facebook hub Green Week - Week 8 Promote student engagement and representation in sustainability decision-making Support student led projects with
funding Support students with projects/dissertations
Collaboration
…and beyond LSE Universities Other partners Our suppliers
Panel session
Ethan Stratford Saskia Straub Diana Szpotowicz Rhys Clarke Ellie Cottrell
Perspectives from LSE students, alumni, staff…
Panel session Collaboration
Making sustainability a key part
Investment
Watch Mike Ferguson’s short video online at https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/2020101 6_sustainabilityStrategicPlanInvestment.mp4 Watch the video
Investment
Mike Ferguson
Chief Finance Officer
LSE will make sustainability a key part of
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Investment
Became a signatory of the UN supported Principles for Responsible Investment in 2019. Actively engage with and evaluate performance of our Fund Managers
Adopted a Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy in 2015.
We already:
Investment
LSE's approach to responsible investment is important to me
You told us
92%
Our investments should incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy
90%
I understand LSE’s approach to responsible investment
25%
Investment
Make materials available on our website which explain our approach in an open and transparent manner. Make our fund managers’ responsible investment evaluation process more public, strengthening its impact. Work with student and others to create materials that illustrate more effectively our approach.
Communicate our approach to responsible investment:
0 - Unaware /not Acknowledging Climate Change 1 - Acknowledging Climate Change 2 - Building Capacity 3 - Integrated into Operational Decision-making 4 - Strategic Assessment
Investment
Management Quality
Levels of performance
Carbon Performance Alignment to Paris Agreement
Assessing companies preparedness for the transition to a low-carbon economy:
1 2
Investment
Consider switching to newly formed index tracking indices employing TPI diligence disciplines (e.g. Russell FTSE TPI Transition Index). Form a closer relationship with the Grantham Research Institute at LSE to support the implementation of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI). Increase the emphasis of our Socially Responsible Investment policy towards managers who embed climate change in their company selection using for example the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).
Increase focus on incentives to support the transition to a low carbon economy
Reaching net-zero carbon and reducing our environmental impacts
Our School
Watch Julian Robinson (Director of Estates)’s short video online at https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse/20201015_sustainabilityStrat egicPlanOurSchool.mp4 Watch the video
Our School
Andrew Young
Chief Operating Officer
LSE will reach net-zero carbon and reduce its direct environmental impacts.”
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Measure Reduce Mitigate Becoming net-zero carbon Take a systematic approach to carbon management
Our School
Our School
Measure
Continue to improve the accuracy of our carbon footprint
Our School
Next steps to net-zero ➢ Set a carbon reduction pathway aligned to climate science ➢ Develop a new Carbon Management Plan for the School
reduction carbon emissions
Scope 1 & 2 since 2005
2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 net-zero
£4.8
million invested
in energy efficiency measures Carbon emission – Tonnes CO2e – Scope 1 & 2
Follow a challenging carbon reduction pathway
Reduce
Our School
Continue buying electricity from 100% renewable sources
the emissions we cannot avoid yet as an interim measure
Mitigate
1 2
Fund carbon reduction projects in the UK or abroad through high-quality certified offsets schemes Over time transition to carbon removal methods (eg carbon capture, forestation)
3
1st carbon neutral UK university
for our measured emissions
Our School
Work towards a ‘Zero Impacts’ campus
Energy Waste & Resources Built environment Travel Technology Water Air quality Biodiversity Catering
Procurement – supply chain
LSE campus Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
Our School
Our buildings
➢
Adopt the highest environmental standards
➢
Invest in further energy efficiency measures
➢
All construction projects to be net-zero carbon
Outstanding
Rainwater harvesting & recycling in toilets
Centre Building Green roof Excellent
Rated B highly energy efficient
Natural ventilation Biofuel CHP buildings with solar panels
14
Green wall Old Building Pollinator friendly planting
Our School
Charges on single-use plastics
10p 25p
Reducing single-use plastics
Engage & promote Forgot your reusable cup? recycle…
hot drinks on campus sold in reusable cups
target 60%!
Our School
Eating our veg!
Promoting plant-based options at LSE catering outlets
Two vegetarian / vegan cafes on campus vegetarian / vegan
% of LSE dishes sold in 2019
45% 60%
target for end 2020/21 Promote behavioural change through nudges and incentives
You told us
Minouche Shafik Director, LSE Questions & Answers
Education Engagement & Leadership Research Investment Collaboration Our School
Dilly Fung
Pro-Director for Education
Simon Hix
Pro-Director for Research
Mike Ferguson
Chief Finance Officer
Julia Black
Strategic Director of Innovation
Nicholas Stern
Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate and the Environment at LSE
Andrew Young
Chief Operating Officer
Julian Robinson
Director of Estates
Charles Joly
Head of Sustainability
Panel
Elie Cottrell
LSESU Environment & Ethics Officer
Minouche Shafik
Director, LSE
Chair
Explore the Plan
lse.ac.uk/2030/sustainability-strategic-plan
Green impact
Reduce the Juice Connect
Panel event - Thursday 22 Oct, 6pm BST
Exploring CLIMATE JUSTICE
LSESU societies
Environmental journal
LSE Sustainable Futures Society
Student led sustainability projects at LSE
#SustainableLSE
Sustainable LSE @SustainableLSE Moodle e-learning module Newsletter Annual reports Learn more and keep up to date
lse.ac.uk/sustainableLSE
Closing Remarks Minouche Shafik Director, LSE
signatory
▪ The 668 LSE staff, students, alumni and friends of LSE who took the time to fill our online sustainability survey, and the 323 who attended events. ▪ Your hosts today: Minouche Shafik, LSE Director - Prof Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE - Charles Joly, Head of Sustainability at LSE. ▪ Our Collaboration panellists today: Elie Cottrell, Ethan Stratford, Saskia Straub, Diana Szpotowicz, Rhys Clarke. ▪ Our theme leads: Education: Professor Dilly Fung, LSE Pro-Director for Education / Research: Professor Simon Hix, LSE Pro-Director for Research / Engagement & Leadership: Professor Nicholas Stern / Investment: Mike Ferguson, Chief Financial Officer / Collaboration: Professor Julia Black, Strategic Director of Innovation / Our School: Andrew Young, Chief Operating Officer & Julian Robinson, Director of Estates. ▪ Very special thanks to Nicholas Stern for all his time and dedication over the last months, providing leadership to the Sustainability Advisory Group and guiding this work. ▪ The members of the Sustainability Advisory Group : Nicholas Stern – Chair, Martin Anthony (Vice Chair of Academic Board), Caroline Butler (Advisor to Investment Sub-Committee), Harriet Carter (Department Manager, Law), Dilly Fung (Pro-Director Education), Simon Hix (Pro-Director Research), Kathryn Hochstetler (Professor of International Development), Charles Joly (Head of Sustainability), Julian Robinson (Director of Estates), Coralie Simmons (Centre Manager, Centre for Macroeconomics), Saskia Straub (Student Union Environment & Ethics Officer), Ethan Stratford (President of Sustainable Futures Society), Imogen Withers (Director of Communications). ▪ The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, and in particular for their time and contributions: Eva Lee, Dr Sam Fankhauser, Robert Falkner, Bob Ward, Simon Dietz, Michal Nachmany, Glen Gostlow, James Rising, the Grantham sustainability working groups, and more. ▪ The Sustainability team: Charles Joly, Elena Rivilla-Lutterkort, Scarlet Prentice, Dan Reeves, Emeline Sztrakos, Martina Beleva. Our mission is to drive change and empower people to create a #SustainableLSE! ▪ All our LSE Green Impact teams made of staff and students from across LSE, with special thanks to the Department of Social Policy Green Impact Team. ▪ The LSE Climate Emergency Collective, and for their contributions Colin Vanelli, Isabella Pojuner, Angus Paget, and Faraz Azam. ▪ LSE’s SU Green Finance society (Wen Lynn Lee, Hemal Gangani). ▪ The Eden Centre, with thanks to Claire Gordon, Lydia Halls, Ellis Saxey. ▪ LSE’s Student Union (Zulum Elumogo, David Gordon, Ellie Cottrell, and more). ▪ Estates team, with special thanks to Julian Robinson, Allan Blair, Ken Kinsella, Richard Jenden, Paul Frankin, Den Donkin, Ben Gladstone, Mandy Crane, Sue Parsons, and many more… ▪ LSE Careers (Lizzie Darlington, Maddie Smith, David Coles). ▪ LSE’s Reduce the Juice sustainability ambassadors. ▪ LSE’s Communications Division (Imogen Withers, Fiona Metcalfe, Carly Norton, Alison Annenberg, Olivia Broome, Jonathan Ing, Lisa Kosky, Charlotte Kelloway, Dave Cole…) ▪ Jacqui Beazley and Karen Agate-Hilton from LSE’s Catering team. ▪ LSE’s Directorate team, with special thanks to Brigid McClure and Paul Sullivan. ▪ The committees who supported, including the Education committee, Research committee, School Management Board, JNICC. ▪ The Data and Technology Services team, with thanks to Laura Dawson, Puneet Singh, Michael Durso. ▪ Mike Ferguson and Jenny Febry in Finance Division. ▪ Cristian Martin and the Procurement team. ▪ Neil Gaskell and Caroline Butler from the Investment Sub Committee ▪ Catarina Heeckt and Philipp Rode at LSE Cities. ▪ Lena Karlin, Jane Powell and Helene Moran at Shift Insight. ▪ Tim Forsyth, Katie Rees, Anne Power… ▪ LSE’s previous Heads of Sustainability: Emma Fieldhouse, Jon Emmett, Victoria Hands… ▪ And the list goes on…
1st class award
Thank you to all our contributors