Tuesday 1 July 2025

Green Impact
Gold Award

At the recent University Green Impact end of year celebrations, Keble College was awarded a Gold Award in recognition of the great sustainability work happening across College.

This is an increase from the Silver Award achieved last year, with actions on food sustainability helping to increase our point score. Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme that provides a toolkit of effective actions staff and students can take to improve sustainability across colleges and the University. Oxford University’s Green Impact Program is specifically tailored to the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy, with headline targets of net zero carbon and biodiversity net gain by 2035. The ethos is about changing behaviours and making physical improvements to improve our sustainable practices in and around our buildings and college life in general.

The awards this year look slightly different from the previous year’s awards. They have been crafted by the University joiners from reclaimed wood that was previously part of bookshelves in the old Radcliffe Science Library — sustainable and linked to the University’s legacy.

Particular thanks go to Amaury Genovese (MCR President) for his hard work on the toolkit submission.