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Green Impact
Green Impact empowers UCL departments to improve their sustainability impact, to support UCL’s Sustainability Strategy.
- How to get involved?
- Check if your area of work already has a Faculty Lead Green Champion you can connect with.
- If you don't have a Champion, contact your Sustainability Business Partner.
- Register with an existing team, or create a new one on the Green Impact Online Toolkit.
- Stay up to date by signing up to the Green Champions Mailing List.
- Join the Green Champions Network Teams site for tips.
- Work through our interactive online toolkit to make positive changes within your department or office.
- Gather evidence of your positive actions and submit it to the Green Impact team.
- Earn points and work your way up the levels (Bronze, Silver and then Gold)
- Student volunteers audit teams in May to check that the workbooks have been completed
- All accreditations are acknowledged at the annual Sustainability Awards Ceremony.
- Training and Guidance
Training
Take the Change possible: Sustainable UCL course on UCL's mandatory training page.
Guidance
- The Green Champions Network and Mailing List are key sources of information throughout the year.
- Faculty Lead Green Champions support members of staff in their faculty to complete Green Impact. They should be your first point of contact for questions relating to the programme. Find your Faculty Lead Green Champion.
- For those who do not yet have a Faculty Lead Green Champion, you should contact your Sustainability Business Partner. Your Business Partner is someone from the Sustainable UCL Team who has been assigned to your faculty or business area, and can act as a point of contact for any questions you have relating to Green Impact.
- Get help from Student Sustainability Ambassadors
Students are trained as Sustainability Ambassadors to help teams complete the toolkit. They can undertake a research project, organise events, and help you work through the criteria.
Apply to work with a Sustainability Ambassador by the 17th October 2025
- 2025/2026 Green Impact Sustainability Ambassador Request Form
- Student Sustainability Ambassador Application Form
If you miss the deadline for applying for a Sustainability Ambassador, you are very welcome to recruit and work with students from your department on a more informal basis and manage this yourself.
- Key Dates
- The toolkit is reviewed every summer and launched in September. The launch for Green Impact 2025/26 will be the week commencing 29th September 2025.
- Deadline for staff to apply for a Student Sustainability Ambassador: 17th October 2025.
- Deadline for students to apply to become a Sustainability Ambassador: 12th October 2025.
- Staff and students are notified of their pairing in week commencing 20th October 2025.
- First meetings between staff and students to be arranged between them within Term 1.
- Green Impact Submission deadline: 11th May 2026.
- Green Impact Audits: 26th-28th May 2026.
- Awards Ceremony: July 2026. See 2025 Sustainability Award winners.
- Toolkit Guidance
- Access the workbook on the Green Impact Online Toolkit, which contains all essential information about completing the criteria, including links to relevant resources and key contacts.
Faculty Criteria to complete Library, Culture, Collections and Open Spaces (LCCOS) Core and LCCOS. Central LCCOS Services Core, LCCOS, and Central LCCOS Services.
Office space staff Core and Office. Residences Core and Residences. Central Residence Team Core, Residences, and Central Residences. Lab staff Please refer to our LEAF pages. If your lab also has office space, you can also complete Green Impact as an Office space.
Community Action
Events
Resources
View resources created to help teams complete Green Impact. Each resource has been organised into Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Sustainability Plans, and signposted towards the relevant criteria.
Labs
