U.Porto – Porto Business School
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Climate action
We highlight our urban garden, the Paper Free School, Plastic Free School and Sharing is Caring initiatives, the availability of fast chargers for electric cars, and the building itself, the first in the education sector, to obtain the LEED – Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – Gold level certificate in Portugal that includes: 3 artificial lakes that collect and redirect rainwater for reuse in the irrigation of our low maintenance gardens, firefighting and sanitary water; low air conditioning consumption systems; intelligent lighting; use of products without harmful chemicals; recycling and reuse of more than 90% of waste from the work. Among the various projects in which Porto Business School is involved in order to collaborate with organizations on sustainability, we highlight the Sustainable Act – a project financed by Compete 2020 to empower SMEs to become more sustainable and incorporate in their strategy the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN.
Testimony
At PBS we take on our commitment to the Porto Climate Pact in a spirit of mission. We commit to reinforce and create new cross-cutting actions, internal and external, to develop the social and environmental responsibility of organizations and individuals. We are also committed to setting concrete targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and engaging our student community and organizations to be an active part of the decarbonisation journey. We are aware of the challenge of carbon neutrality, but its inevitability and unquestionable benefits for the future hold us accountable for empowering our community to be more resilient, prosperous, fair and aware of the limits of our planet.
Ramon O’Callaghan
Dean 2022