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Net Zero on Campus Guide

A guide and accompanying toolkit for universities and colleges to accelerate climate action worldwide. Universities and colleges across the world have the unique opportunity in ...

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The 5th P (Persuade) Handbook

The Race to Zero released the 5th P (Persuade) Handbook. The purpose of the Handbook is to consolidate existing critical resources on net zero advocacy, policy, and engag ...

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R2Z Infographic

This is a useful infographic to explain the Race to Zero from the Green Building Council. ...

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2023 Annual Progress Report for the Race to Zero

The 2023 Annual Progress Report for the Race to Zero. See chapter 8 at page 44 for the education section including case studies from Tecnológico de Monterrey and Ame ...

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Taking Stock of Progress - September 2022

The first joint progress report across UN-backed global climate campaigns: Race to Resilience and Race to Zero Making progress This report is a first joint progress report to ...

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Get Net-Zero Right

Get Net-Zero Right – A how-to guide for spotting credible commitments and those that miss the mark – by the High-Level Champions and the Race to Zero team Find out m ...

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UNEP Sustainable University Framework

This framework seeks to define what it means to be a sustainable university and lays out a pathway to becoming one. The framework also outlines how sustainability can be advanced i ...

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International Green Gown Awards

The International Green Gown Awards are supported by UN Environment and are open to any university or college across the world. Recognising exceptional sustainability initiative ...

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Little Book of Green Nudges

Whoever or wherever you are, if you want to create positive change at your university, this book is for you. Nudging has enormous potential to make our uni ...

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Climate Action Plan Structures

Signatory institutions agree to develop a climate action plan for becoming climate neutral and by which defined thresholds of resilience will be met. This climate action plan is to ...

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Climate Action Roadmap

The Climate Action for UK FE Colleges Roadmap has been developed in collaboration between Climate Commission and award-winning management consultancy, Nous Group. The Roadmap provi ...

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Earth School

Earth School was co-created by UNEP and Ted-Ed to provide kids, parents and teachers all over the world with engaging nature-focused content to stay connected to nature d ...

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Green Jobs for Youth

Global Guidance for Education on Green Jobs: Connecting Higher Education and Green Opportunities for Planetary Health.  This initiative is designed to increase demand for g ...

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Sustainability Exchange

The Sustainability Exchange aims to be the world's leading resource of sustainability information for education. Explore the thousands of resources here. ...

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Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitment Implementation Handbook

The Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments provide frameworks to advance campus climate action.  While each institution determines their own goals and actions, there ...

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SDG Accord

The purpose of the SDG Accord is twofold:   First it is to inspire, celebrate and advance the critical role that education has in delivering the Sustainable Development ...

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Second Nature: Carbon Management & Mitigation

Reducing the output of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most critical responses to climate change, which is why it plays a central role in implementing the Carbon and Climate ...

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Sustainability Leadership Scorecard

At last we have a transformational ‘All in One’ tool which captures data and performance from many sources and builds one definitive picture of your institutions perfor ...

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UNEP MOOCs

UNEP and its partners offer a wide range of courses on critical environmental issues. 1. MOOC on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience ...

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Second Nature: Measuring Progress

Many will be familiar with the adage: “what gets measured gets managed” (Peter Drucker). It’s a good beginning to many projects, and helps to build clarity around ...

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HE Climate Action Toolkit

The Climate Commission for Higher and Further Education Students has created a Higher Education Climate Action Toolkit. With 91% of students being fairly or very concerned ...