Climate Week

Climate Week 2022 is taking place from Monday 21 – Friday 25 March. It’s the second year of this exciting campaign week after its launch in 2021, and we’ve got lots in store for our students as they engage with sustainability at LUU and our three themes for this year: climate justice, climate education and eco-anxiety.

There’s a jam-packed programme of events taking place, ranging from a community litter pick, spring wellbeing walk and sustainability careers fair, to a discussion forum on eco-anxiety, sustainable swap shop, vegan food fair and more. Everyone’s welcome, whether you’re an eco-warrior or just curious about sustainability.

Climate Week survey

If you joined in with any of our sustainability activities, please let us know how you found it through completing this survey, so we can make it even better next year. If you complete the survey, you can be in with the chance of winning one of four fantastic prizes, including a Chilly’s bottle and LUU vouchers.

We’re working with our sustainability partner – the design-led reusables brand Chilly’s – to give students the chance to get their own bottle design created and sold in LUU, with two runners up getting their designs created to share with friends and family.

This Climate Week, we want to mobilise our students to make positive changes to their lifestyles that cut their environmental impact. That’s why we’re running a competition to see which club or society can make the biggest reduction to their carbon footprint, as calculated by Giki Zero.

Giki Zero is a handy online tool that calculates your carbon footprint by asking questions about your lifestyle, before suggesting changes big and small to cut your impact down. From transport and food to the services you use, this tool is the perfect way to track your environmental impact and find ways to reduce it that you might not have already thought of.

As you log the steps you’re already taking and commit to trying new ones, your Giki score increases – and the higher it is, the better you’re doing.

Across Climate Week we want clubs and societies to get their members signed up and logging their actions, for the chance to win a fantastic prize for the whole society – there are a number of awards up for grabs, including for the group with the highest collective score at the end of the week. The competition will run from Monday 21 March – Sunday 27 March.

Make sure to use this link to sign up and join the LUU leaderboard:

And use this link to join the appropriate group (ensure all society members are added to your group to make sure every contribution counts):

Happy carbon cutting!