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Almost half of 18-24 year olds now choose environmental issues as one of their 3 most pressing concerns for the nation (YouGov 2019) and young people list climate change and environment as the most serious issue affecting the world today (Global Shapers report 2017).<\/p>\n
So it is no surprise that 89% of UoG students are telling us they expect to see action on sustainability as part of their university experience (NUS survey 2019) – and internationally this figure is even higher at 91%! (NUS international survey 2018). Find out what happens for sustainability in university life here.<\/p>\n
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67% would willingly be paid \u00a31000 less a year if the company they worked for had a good environmental and ethical record (NUS\/HEA surveys 2010-2015)<\/p>\n
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In the UK, the National Union of Students and the student-led organisation, People and Planet, are the big players driving change for sustainability and have been committed to this agenda over the long term.<\/p>\n
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<\/strong>The NUS sustainability charity SOS-UK has a large team working on a range of sustainability change programmes <\/a>for universities, colleges and workplaces, nationally and internationally. This includes the United Nations award winning Green Impact programme <\/a>and grassroots projects such as Student Eats<\/a> for students to grow and sell food on campus. They also lead a number of national system change campaigns including ‘Teach the Future’<\/a>– a joint campaign with the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) to repurpose the English education system around the climate and ecological crisis; ‘Carbon Targets<\/a>‘ a campaign to get universities and colleges to commit to and deliver ambitious targets to tackle the climate crisis; and ‘Mock COP<\/a>‘ – a global youth-led campaign to fill the void of the postponed COP26 climate talks. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n