UK Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice

The agreement, the UK Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice, has been co-developed by more than 25 organisations including universities, research institutes and funders in the UK research and innovation sector.

The University of Dundee has committed to fully adopting the Concordat.

Embedding sustainable practice

Concordat signatories commit to progressively embedding environmental sustainability into all research and innovation practices.

Signatories agree to action six priority areas, including finding new sustainable approaches and maintaining transparency about the environmental impacts of research output.

They also commit to publicly sharing how their organisations will deliver their sustainability aims and publish annual summaries of progress.

Strategic partnership

The priorities set out in the Concordat align with the values and objectives of the University, as stated in our own Strategy, and will shape our ongoing work and action planning for the ambitious target of delivering Net Zero by 2045.

Our commitment to developing new solutions for a cleaner, greener planet is borne out in our new Binks Institute for Sustainability, which has been established to meet critical need for contemporary societies to confront the climate crisis and to facilitate ways of living in environmentally sustainable ways.

The Concordat also aligns with the objectives of another major sustainability initiative – Scotland Beyond Net Zero, in which we are a partner with nine of our fellow Scottish universities.

Future focus

Furthermore, priority areas outlined in the University Strategy 2022 – 2027 support action to deliver the net zero transition and sustainable futures worldwide.