American School Of Ras Al Khaimah Scores Extreme In Sustainability, With Lowest Greenhouse Gasoline Emissions Amongst UAE Universities

The sprawling 1.6 million sq. ft. campus of the American School of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) is on monitor to understand the sustainability targets set out in its five-year Sustainability Movement Plan (SAP), with preliminary critiques displaying that it has the underside greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions amongst UAE universities.

In accordance with the findings of the Greenhouse Gasoline (GHG) Emission Report carried out by ZeeDimension consultancy for the school, AURAK’s entire GHG emissions are significantly low when evaluated in the direction of these of various universities.

Extra, primarily based on revealed info from UAE universities, AURAK reveals the underside GHG emissions per capita of three.67 metric tons of carbon dioxide equal (MTCO₂e), in distinction to three completely different prime universities whose emissions ranged between 5.68 to 7.59 MTCO₂e.

The school has set an daring objective to chop again Co2 emissions by 20% by 2030. This low cost shall be achieved by the use of the utilization of autos that rely on varied vitality gasoline sources, decreased reliance on on-site backup generators, and the enlargement of renewable vitality sources on campus, comparable to solar-powered lighting and heating applications.

Prof. Stephen Wilhite, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Pupil Success and Provost at AURAK, says: “We take sustainability very severely at AURAK. We devoted to aligning our sustainability actions with the Web Zero by 2050 strategic initiative by lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions by the use of intensive use of photograph voltaic vitality, adoption of unpolluted transportation, adherence to inexperienced developing legal guidelines, implementation of spherical waste applications, and integration of agriculture with nature-based choices.”

Prof. Tahseen Anwer Arshi, Affiliate Provost for Evaluation and Sustainability, and Director AURAK’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, said: “Our Sustainability Movement Plan is a blueprint for lowering our carbon footprint, contributing to UN Sustainable Enchancment Intention 13: Native climate Movement. The findings of the Greenhouse Gasoline Emission Report validates our dedication to be vigorous contributors to worldwide efforts to chop again world warming. In addition to, we’re engaged in vanguard evaluation that focuses on discovering varied choices to environmental conservation.”

AURAK has moreover aligned its strategies to the Inexperienced Setting up Necessities set forth by the RAK Municipality’s “Barjeel” legal guidelines. Accordingly, we goal to chop again embodied carbon inside the main provides utilized in new constructing and most important renovations on our campus.

One in all many essential initiatives outlined in AURAK’s sustainability movement plan is to spice up biodiversity on campus and improve the usual of life for the school group. The school has launched right into a public-private partnership to create a biodiversity hub — a forest-centric sustainability space which will function as a central hub for evaluation in agriculture and biodiversity, specializing within the evaluation of utilized sciences and applications that harness wastewater and photograph voltaic vitality to promote a spherical financial system.

AURAK has moreover organize the Ras Al Khaimah Center for Outside Comfort (RAKCOC), which develops trendy choices which will enhance outside comfort and prime quality of life whereas promoting vitality effectivity and lowering environmental have an effect on.

In addition to, AURAK has partnered with the Emirates Environmental Group to collaborate on quite a lot of recycling initiatives on campus. The school has moreover raised employees and scholar consciousness of environmental and social sustainability and has organized quite a lot of teaching functions and competitions in collaboration with Deloitte and Supluss to promote inexperienced experience.