SDG-13: Climate Action

To address challenges of environment and development, UN adopted ‘Agenda 2030’ to ensure Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in line of “quadruple helix model”. It entails linkages between government, academia, society and business. An approach has been devised to develop academic institutions and new universities as living laboratories for sustainability. Amity University Haryana is finest example of such new university which is developing as living laboratory of sustainability by adopting multipronged approach including Nature Just Development, Green Building, Renewable Energy consumption, sustainability education, 3Rs approach of consumption and many more.

Amity University Haryana is strongly committed to the goal of environmental sustainability and playing an impactful role to ensure compliance in terms of SDGs. The quality and scale of Amity University Haryana’s efforts to transform it into a sustainable campus have been duly recognized as India’s first University and Asia’s 2nd to earn LEED Platinum Certificate from US Green Building Council and among top 200 global campuses in previous Impact Ranking. The University is meaningfully contributing to SDG13 i.e. Climate Action, through the following important measures and frameworks:

• Nature Just Development plan of the University to make it a Green Campus
• Low Carbon energy transformation
• Incorporating Environmental and Sustainability components in imparting education
• Integrating climate change measures into university policies, strategies, and planning
• Collaborative education and research to address environmental and climate change impacts, adaptation, impact reduction, and mitigation.
• Promoting environmental consciousness and practices through various outreach programs to the local and regional communities, thus benefiting the society and nation.