Within the sustainability in higher education scene in Germany, the University of Hamburg hosts one of the most interesting sustainability governance structures: The Center for a Sustainable University. In German:  Kompetenzzentrum Nachhaltige Universität (KNU).   Since one of rootAbility’s expertise is how to design and establish sustainability governance structures, I was very curious to learn… Read More

Around 400 institutions of higher education exist in Germany. A study conducted by Remmer Sassen, Dominik Dienes and Caroline Beth from the University of Hamburg found that 14 of them reported on their sustainability performance through a publicly available sustainability report in 2014. That is only 4%! What did these institutions report about and why… Read More

We interviewed Anselm from GO Maastricht and Julius from Nachhaltigkeitsbüro Magdeburg about sustainability reporting. We summarised the highlights from the discussion into six reasons why sustainability reporting could also become a high-impact activity of your GO:   1) Identifying activities Writing a sustainability report enables your GO to systematically gather and analyse data about the… Read More