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23 December 2021

Liepaja University ranks among the World's 500 greenest universities

Also in this year, Liepaja University enters the “green” world university ranking – UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, by improving the result from 575th place to 450.

The aim of the rating is to assess the activities of the world's higher education institutions in green policy-making and a sustainability, focusing on global climate change challenges, energy and water saving, recycling and green transport.

This year the ranking especially paid attention to the university ability to realize suistanability ojectives and to the ability to adapt to Covid-19 pandemic situation.

The rating identified a number of criteria: surroundings and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transport and education and research. Liepaja University showed the best indicators in the categories: waste, transport and energy, climate change.

A total rating this year includes 956 higher education institutions from 80 countries. There are 3 universities from Latvia: Riga Technical University, Liepaja University and Daugavpils University, with obtained 50th, 450th and 764th place.

In the first place of the ranking is the Wageningen University and Research  from the Netherlands, the second – University of Oxford from the United Kingdom and the third –  University of Nottingham from the United Kingdom.

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