GCP Objectives

A sustainable university campus has a clear vision, guidelines, targets, and commitment to managing its environmental issues. It should have an organizational structure with the necessary resources to achieve sustainability targets. The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan is one of the largest public universities with more than 37,000 students and a vast area. Under the current Vice-Chancellor (VC) regime, the University has started many eco-friendly development projects and is in an expansionary mode. The Current VC has successfully identified the need for sustainable campus development and has started a few projects for water management and green energy with the help of the Punjab Government and other funding agencies, including the photovoltaic energy generation project. However, a centralized integrated environmental management approach is lacking to tackle diverse environmental issues at the campus.

General Objective

This project aims at developing an integrated environmental management approach toward addressing the environmental concerns of the university campus in line with the concept of a sustainable campus.

Specific Objectives

The proposed project aims at addressing the following short-run specific objectives to achieve the objective of long-run campus sustainability.

Energy

• Reduce electricity consumed per head, (kWh/time unit/ number persons) at Abasia campus
• Reduce electricity consumed per head, (kWh/time unit/ number persons) at BJ campus
• Reduce electricity consumed per head, (kWh/time unit/ number persons) at KF campus
• Increase the amount of electricity generated/consumed from renewable energy sources per total amount of electricity generated/consumed, (Renewable/Total) %.
• Reduce gas per head, (CFT/ number persons) at Abasia campus
• Reduce gas per head, (CFT/ number persons) at BJ campus
• Reduce gas per head, (CFT/ number persons) at KFC campus
• Promote energy-efficient electric compliance at the campus

Water

• Reduce Cold/hot water consumption per liter per person at BJ campus.
• Increase the share of recycled water amount per the total water consumption, %.

Paper

• Reduce paper use per head and promote Green (information technology) IT
• Increase digital footprint of the IUB

Waste

• Increase the amount of sorted/recycled waste against total generated waste (divided by flows).
• Increase the availability of containers for sorted waste, number /m2.
• Promote trash management with sustainability SOPs and compost.
• Promote resource conservation, recycling, and reuse.
• Reduce the use of plastic bottles and bag at the university campus.

Green Infrastructure

• Promote initiatives for green infrastructure: green buildings, integrated buildings, sustainable transportation facilities such as greenways, footpaths, cycleways, preservation of the university landscape, biodiversity, and green spaces.

Transportation

• Minimize the use of petrol per head by university administrative.
• Minimize the use of diesel per student at IUB.
• Promote initiatives to minimize the use of vehicles and encourage walk and the use of bicycle at the campus.

Behavioral

• Develop sustainability SOPs for all academic, research, cultural and sports activities taking place at the university campuses.
• Ensure that all academic, research, cultural and supports activities taking place at the campus should be in line with sustainability SOPs.
• Creating awareness about environmental issues of the university and society through workshops, seminars, and conferences.
• Foster environmentally responsible citizenship and environment literacy.
• Create an institutional culture of sustainability and practice institutional ecology.

Research

• Promote research on environment and sustainability issues at the campus.
• Increase funds on research and development on energy conservation, energy efficiency and water conversation.
• Promote initiatives to take sustainability issues as a research challenge.

Curriculum

• Promote initiatives to include maximum subjects on sustainability and environment issues in graduate and post-graduate classes.

Green Health Care system

• Promote initiative for green health care practices.
• Promote the initiatives to minimize the use of medicine and expenditures on health at IUB.

Food Wastage Control

• Promote the initiatives to minimize food wastages and sustainability in food consumption at IUB.
• Promote the culture of food saving in food selection, food cooking and food usage at IUB.
• Promote initiative to make food point at IUB green food point.

Green Procurement

• Promote the initiatives for green and sustainable procurement at the IUB.
• Make sure that all goods and services precured by the IUB should have minimum adverse environmental outcomes.