The Center for Sustainability and Climate (CSC) hosted a workshop along with their strategic partner United Nation Global Compact (UNGC) Saudi Network titled by “Understanding Sustainable Development Goals and its...
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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Operational measures
Prince Sultan University is involved in several industrial, academic, governmental, local, and international collaborations that are leading the way in the search for sustainable consumption and waste disposal. Policies are formulated and in place in the university that tackles different waste disposal, and ethical food sourcing and supplies. Various activities such as forums, workshops and outreach were done in this regard. Partnership with companies such as Jahez that values sustainability in their work processes provides big impact to the university and its community.
PepsiCo Partners with PSU to Educate Youth on Sustainability
Partnership with PepsiCo and PSU strengthens efforts towards achieving zero-waste future for the university. This enhances the awareness and application of sustainability through having ethical sourcing of food, supplies and minimizing unsustainable services and supplies. This partnership also encourages the students and the community to find solutions to common challenges in being sustainable, such as minimizing waste, sustainable disposal of these waste and recycling wastes.
Read more about the PepsiCO PSU partnershipPepsiCo and PSU Activate First Student Led Competition
Student competition on Zero Waste initiative shortlisted 5 groups. The participants focused on different environmental challenges such as using cloud computing for sustainability, waste disposal locator and pollution monitoring, recycling, IoT and NFC in waste disposal, using RFID on electronic wastebin, and waste management systems.
Read more about the PepsiCO PSU competition“Green Economy and Environmental Protection – Saudi Vision 2030” Forum
Through the Compliance Office, a forum on Green Economy and Environmental Protection was conducted that participated by different experts on sustainability. The keynote speaker was Mr. Asad Naqvi, Head of the Secretariat, the UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)and Head of the Secretariat, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP), wherein he talked about “tackling the economic and environmental crises together”.
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Renewable Energy Lab
Research Labs such as Renewable Energy Lab, who are in cooperation with Power and Telecom Technologies Co., KFB Holding Group, Riyadh for a collaborative consultancy project on investigations on minimizing electricity cost and feasibility study of self-sustainable campus.
Research Projects such as the Sustainable Nano grid based Networked Electricity - A Paradigm shift for Electricity Infrastructure, was done to provide the community with an alternative to the grid and diesel-powered electricity. This is just one of the project of this Research Lab and more research and project are being done.
- Clear plan for executing energy saving measures by identifying the energy Intensive electrical utilities inside the campus
- Economic analysis for power quality improvement and energy savings
- Identifying the electrical inefficient processes in the campus
- Financial benefit (reduction in the billing cost), investment and payback period
