Independent University Newspaper
Copenhagen Business School

Popular searches:

Independent University Newspaper

Copenhagen Business School

Senior Management approves projects to reach CBS sustainability goals for 2025

In May, CBS announced a sustainability action plan with concrete goals. Now, the Senior Management has approved a portfolio of projects, also known as the CBS Green Program, to meet the goals. The portfolio includes, for example, technologies to minimize water consumption, increased waste sorting across campus, and right now a soccer field is taking shape by the water tower.

News |   05. Dec 2019

Anne Thora Lykkegaard

Journalist

If you have passed by the old water tower next to Kilen, you might have noticed that a large area has been excavated. By spring, it will be a soccer field for CBS students and faculty members.

The soccer field is just one project that supports the CBS Green Program, which has just been approved by the Senior Management as a way for CBS to fulfill its Campus Sustainability Strategy.

(Illustration: Schul Landskabsarkitekter)

The strategy covers three aspects of sustainability: social, environmental and economic, and the football field is part of supporting both the social study environment at CBS as well as the health of students and faculty members.

Since April 2018, Tore Klitgaard, Sustainable Design Developer at CBS and co-author of the action plan, has been working on the strategy and various pilot projects and ideas for projects to meet the goals set in the strategy. And he’s thrilled by the approval from the Senior Management.

“It’s a milestone that the Senior Management has approved the initiatives and projects to meet the goals set for 2025. We are now ready to push the button and are good to go,” he says.

Kirsten Winther Jørgensen, University Director at CBS, shares Tore Klitgaard’s enthusiasm.

“It’s important for CBS to have concrete projects and initiatives that support our ambitions in the Campus Sustainability Strategy and its goals for 2020–2025, as well as having the organization and governance to secure the execution in place,” she says and continues:

“This means we know what must be done, and that we have a framework for following the projects and initiatives and tracking whether we are going in the right direction.”

1, 2, sustainability

The projects and initiatives differ a great deal and therefore will not be launched together. Some projects are analyses, some are policies while others are projects.

For example, CBS is in a phase of analysis regarding how it can achieve a 100 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. On the other hand, the Senior Management has agreed to invest in water management tools and technologies to monitor and minimize wastewater across campus. This could include optimizing taps and toilets to minimize water use.

While some of the initiatives can be executed by Campus Services, many require a change of behavior and help from students and staff.

“Students and faculty members across CBS must be involved if we want to reach our goals. This includes our goal for waste sorting, transport policy, reuse of furniture and so on. Here, it is of utmost importance that we can mobilize all of CBS and that’s the reason for why, from the very beginning, it has been important that the CBS Green Program is open and involves people in its work with sustainability on campus,” says Kirsten Winther Jørgensen.

Tore Klitgaard particularly likes that the CBS Green Program can potentially change how we think about sustainability.

“The strategy and program force us to think differently. So, when we have a broken chair, we don’t just buy a new one but see whether we can repair it instead or even look in to ways of legal and affordable ways of leasing a chair,” he says.

Right now, Tore Klitgaard is in the middle of making waste sorting possible at all of six CBS canteens, as well as running pilot projects in different departments to collect more data on how waste sorting can be implemented across CBS. And then he reveals that it looks as if Solbjerg Plads will gain a deposit system for bottles and cans as a pilot project in the near future.

“We live in a time where business as usual isn’t sufficient, and we have to take on that mindset as well,” says Tore Klitgaard.

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Senior Management approves projects to reach CBS sustainability goals for 2025by

  • News

    Layoffs break the crucial trust between organisation and employee

    CBS is laying off a number of employees soon, which will affect our university in different ways. When employees are fired without having done anything wrong, it shatters the trust between the organisation and employees, while also taking a toll on productivity, according to a CBS expert. Layoffs also affect the ‘survivors’, who are forced to adapt to a changed workload and the loss of cherished colleagues.

  • News

    Here to help – at the touch of a button and at Campus Desk

    Exam anxiety? Lost student card? I’ve wedged my car between a Fiat 500 and a lamp post, can you help? You never know what you’ll be asked next. But that’s just how the Campus Desk team like it. And if they can’t fix your problem, they’ll know someone who can. CBS WIRE asked the team about the whole range of topics they advice on every day.

  • News

    Why so sudden? The CBS financial crisis explained

    Employees and union representatives have posed many questions in the wake of the 17 August announcement of a firing round. In this interview, University Director Arnold Boon explains how Senior Management has been working with the budget and a change of financial strategy since the fall of 2022, and why layoffs are now necessary.

  • Illustration: Ida Eriksen

    News

    Here’s what you need to know about the master’s reform

    The political parties behind the master’s reform have adjusted their original proposal to shorten or reorganize up to 50 percent of master’s programmes after pressure from CBS and the other Danish universities. Fewer shortened master’s and longer to implement changes are some important revisions to the reform. CBS’ president is pleased that the government and other parties behind the reform have listened to some of the critique given by the universities but raises concern about cutting more study places in bachelor’s programmes.

  • News

    CBS Quiz Time: Unraveling the success story

    A successful university environment such as CBS is often associated with academic pursuits, but campus life extends far beyond the classroom. At CBS Quiz Time, a student society motivated by creative thinking and social engagement, students join in a refreshing range of creativity, excitement, and social interaction. CBS WIRE talked to Celine Møller-Andersen to find out about the society’s vision, strategies and the factors that are driving its rapid expansion.

  • Gif of the week
  • Blog

    Uncertain times: Essential for business schools to understand their market

    The alliance of European business schools met at CBS in June to enhance recruitment strategies, stay informed on industry trends, and analyse where the global economy is heading. The CBS MBA Programmes shares some key take-aways from Associate Dean and Professor Jesper Rangvid’s presentation.

  • News

    Working hard all summer: Bachelor Admissions

    The employees in charge of bachelor admissions at CBS are a small exclusive team. They ensure the validity of diplomas and the fulfilment of entry requirements for bachelor’s degrees at CBS – and, not least, that the applicants get the necessary help to upload the right documentation and find their way around the application procedures.

Follow CBS students studying abroad

CBS WIRE collaborates with Videnskab.dk

Stay connected

Close