Students the key as UCC’s green agenda rewarded

Students are the key to University College Cork’s continued success as one of the word’s greenest third-level campuses, management have claimed.

UCC has been ranked second for the second year running in the Universitas Indonesia (UI) Greenmetric World University Ranking 2014. It compares the performance of 360 universities in 62 countries under headings such as green statistics, energy and climate change, waste management, transport, and education around green issues.

As well as its high placing overall, UCC was second in the urban category.