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Working to achieve our high-level sustainability ambitions

King’s Sustainability Strategy (2026-2030) sets out how King’s will play a leading role in building a more sustainable, just and resilient future.

Through three main themes – Education, Research & Innovation, and Operations – the strategy provides detailed objectives and targets to address the climate and ecological crises.

Following a consultation process with our wider community, the strategy was published in June 2026 to sit alongside King’s Strategy 2030.

Alliums on the Strand in sunlight

“King’s will take an inclusive, collaborative and innovative approach to addressing the climate and ecological crises, embedding sustainability in everything we do.”

King's vision, Sustainability Strategy 2026-30

Our key strategic targets

  1. Increase the number of Undergraduate and Postgraduate modules that relate to at least one UN Sustainable Development Goal every year.
  2. Yearly improvements to our students’ responses to NSS/PTES question on whether their course has encouraged them to think about environmental sustainability.
  3. Grow our external climate and sustainability research awards to £25 million per year by 2030.
  4. Achieve net zero emissions by 2045 for Scope 1 and 2, and by 2050 for Scope 3.
  5. Yearly decrease in Scope 1 and 2 emissions per full-time staff & student.

Contact us

Get in touch if you would like to learn more about sustainability and climate action at King's, have a question or would like to collaborate.

sustainability@kcl.ac.uk
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