BANGOR University was recently ranked eighth on a list of the world's greenest universities.

Their commitment to sustainability has once again been confirmed in an international league table of environmentally friendly institutions - The UI Green Metric.

The scheme was first launched by Universitas Indonesia in 2010 to highlight sustainability and environmental management at universities around the globe.

This year 619 universities from 76 countries took part in the event that aims to highlight sustainability and environmental management at universities around the world.

Bangor has moved up eight places to eighth position, meaning that they are now in the top 2% of participating universities.

“I am delighted that Bangor continues to maintain its position as a sustainability leader within the international higher education sector." Vice Chancellor Professor John G Hughes said.

"This latest announcement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to taking positive action in promoting sustainability and achieving continual environmental improvement”.

Year on year Bangor University and Undeb Bangor (the Student’s Union) work closely together to continually improve their positions as sustainability leaders.

Since 2014 the University has risen 20 places in the Green Metric, taking it from the top 10% to the top 2% of the world’s greenest universities, whilst the number of universities participating nearly doubled during that time.

Dr Einir Young, Director of Sustainability responded to the announcement saying:

“This is a campus-wide team effort. Driving environmental improvements and resource efficiencies throughout the organisation is a challenge without end and one that requires all of us to join in.

"We recognise that sound environmental management is essential to our aim of developing and applying innovative ways of integrating consideration for sustainability and the well-being of future generations into everything we do, through our research, our teaching and our own supply chain”.