Sustainable business operations
Climate, biodiversity and circularity are important, overarching themes in WUR’s operations. WUR carefully considers the social impact of all decisions that are made in these areas.
Read how WUR is achieving sustainable business operations (6)
Towards 50% less waste on campus
Facilities and Services employees detail how they contribute to sustainable operations in a series of interviews. In part 4: partnership manager Anne van Casteren about Material Flow Management.
Sustainable plans
In our Strategic Plan we give priority to promoting the vitality of staff and students, to offer healthier and more sustainably produced food in our canteens, and to reduce our food waste.
WUR in sustainability rankings and facts & figures
- In the 2024 GreenMetric ranking, Wageningen University & Research is in first place, for eight consecutive times, making it the greenest and most sustainable university in the world.
- The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking assesses how organisations across the globe score with regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- WUR ended in 32nd place in the 2023 Transparancy Benchmark of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and has the highest score of all Dutch universities.
- In 2019, WUR’s CO2 emissions were 50% lower compared to 2010.
- WUR is contributing to the energy transition: in 2022, 67% of its energy was generated sustainably.
- In 2022, 65% of WUR’s waste was separately collected.
- During the 2023 Biodiversity Challenge, 1373 species of plants, birds, insects, mushrooms, shellfish, mammals, fish, amphibians and algae were recorded on Wageningen Campus.
