Supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030...

  

Operations

In line with the HKUST 2020 Sustainability Challenge, HKUST has been proactive in the implementation of new initiatives and campus metrics analysis to better understand campus sustainability trends, performance, and areas of need...

  

Materiality

We conducted a materiality study in 2019-20 by carrying out surveys of more than 1,400 UAC (University Administrative Committee) members, academic staff, administrative staff and students of the university...

  

Education

The goal is to have by 2020 an educational and research framework ensuring that students gain a solid understanding of sustainability concepts and graduate with the capacity and commitment to solve problems locally and globally...

  

Network

Engaging the Campus Community

In the summer of 2019, when the campus was lively and filled with freshmen, our green O’ Camp campaign invited student societies to adopt three simple green actions on zero-waste dining...

  

Research and Demonstration

Highlights from the year 

A thermal sensitive nano gel developed by Prof. WEN Weijia from the Department of Physics has recently been applied in the production of a smart glass whose transparency changes automatically according to the ambient temperature and solar radiation intensity...