Governance and Mandates

Through the Environmental and Sustainability Policy and Climate Action Plan Amity University Haryana is committed to ensuring Campus Carbon Neutrality by 2028 through a series of action points including the reduction of grid energy dependence by switching to Solar PV. The policy covers major areas of climate action and adaptation and provides an opportunity for the inclusion of appropriate aspects which help to achieve carbon neutrality by 2028. The university’s Carbon Neutrality goal covers scope 1 and scope 2 completely while scope 3 partially. Scope 3 covers partial as per the ranking framework which includes direct emissions, indirect emissions from purchased electricity (which happens to be a major source of carbon emissions), and a few indirect emissions including travel, waste and water management, and material procurements. University is functioning in compliance with the Environmental and Sustainability Policy having clear guidelines of the climate action working plan, which addresses local (i.e. rainwater harvesting plan to reduce water footprint), regional (i.e. passive building design to overcome heat regime in the semi-arid region) and global (i.e. shifting to low carbon-based energy sources to reduce the carbon footprint of campus) climate concerns.

University is performing better in terms of wastewater treatment (in-house wastewater and sewage treatment, WTP, and STP), solar energy installation, rainwater harvesting, waste management, material procurement (paperless office and e-governance), transport (community transport for faculty and students). University operates in compliance with the Environmental and Sustainability Policy having clear guidelines of climate action working plan (Evidence 1), which addresses local (i.e. rainwater harvesting plan to reduce water footprint), regional (i.e. passive building design to overcome heat regime in semi-arid region) and global (i.e. shifting to low carbon-based energy sources to reduce carbon footprint of campus) climate concerns. AUH execution of sustainability action plan is dually reflected in university green building ranking (LEED Lab Platinum), NAAC ‘A’ grade accreditation.

Environment and Sustainability Policy