Walking the talk

Walking the talk in our operations

This domain reflects the University of Melbourne's ambition to become a true exemplar of sustainable community, supporting and enhancing the ecosystems, networks and communities our campuses form part of, at scales from local to global. It includes the following priority areas:

  • The University reaches and maintains a 'high' climate change preparedness level.
  • Each campus achieves no net loss of biodiversity relative to defined baseline years by 2025
  • Each campus achieves an increase of biodiversity relative to defined baseline years by 2030.
  • The University has reduced total water consumption by 10% relative to a 2019 baseline
  • The University has significantly increased the proportion of water consumption from non-potable sources compared to a 2019 baseline.
  • The University has reduced waste to landfill to 10kg per person
  • The University has reduced the flow and improved the circularity of materials passing through the University
  • The University has principles for ethical and sustainable consumption and service provision embedded into operations and procurement practices
  • The University tracks spend with social and Indigenous suppliers, setting targets from 2024.
  • The University’s investment portfolio will be included in our commitment to be climate positive by 2030
  • Enhanced transparent reporting of the University’s investment portfolio.