Sustainability [for students & staff]

There are 6 pages to the report, which you can select at the bottom of the report.

1. Introduction page

2. Baseline year 2018-19 and targets for each organisational unit

• Select the School, College or Services in the top drop-down.
• The page gives information on 2018-19 data on headcount, number of flights, distances travelled and relating carbon emissions.
• The page also shows some carbon forecast calculations, under fixed assumptions on staff growth (+ 2% per annum), annual air travel carbon reductions (- 7.6%) to achieve the University's target, and that 100% of domestic travel would be taken by train or other ground transport, instead of flights.

3. Flight and rail overview

• Select the School, College or Services in the top drop-down.
• Select the reporting year or years you are interested in, in the right-hand side drop-down.
• The page gives information on air and rail travel destinations, number of journeys, travelled distances and related carbon emissions by cabin class.

4. Detailed travel information

• Select the School, College or Services in the top drop-down.
• Select the reporting year or years you are interested in, in the right-hand side drop-down
• You can select buttons to show values for carbon emissions, distances travelled, number of journeys and spend.
• The results are shown by flight distance category and cabin class.
• Reasons for travel are shown as a word-cloud.

5. Comparison over the reporting years

• Select the School, College or Services in the top drop-down.
• Select the reporting year or years you are interested in, in the right-hand side drop-down
• You can select buttons to show values for carbon emissions, distances travelled, number of journeys and spend.
• If more than one year is selected, this page allows direct comparison between the values in each category over the reporting years, from 2018-19 onwards.

6. Data focussed on actual number of travellers

• This page allows comparison between data based on headcount and number of actual travellers. 
• You can select buttons to show values for carbon emissions, distances travelled, number of journeys and spend, in relation to actual number of travellers.

The College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences has changed its internal structure to create new schools. 

The Business Travel Reporting File reflects these changes as follows -

• The new schools and units have been added to the old schools and institutes within the college reporting.
• Data is shown in the old sections from 2018-19 up to 2021-22, leaving the new sections to show '0'.
• Data is shown in the new sections from 2022-23 onwards, leaving the old sections to show '0'.