Fostering a culture of sustainability

Sustainable development requires a long-term structural change in today’s economic and social systems with the aim of reducing environmental and resource consumption to a sustainable level while maintaining economic performance and social cohesion. The United Nations (UN) has developed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a plan of action for sustainability. 

Universities are in a unique position for developing a culture of sustainability. They are leading institutions for actively implementing sustainable measures as well as fostering the aims of sustainability in academic and research programmes. The University of Malta is committed to delivering on sustainability reflecting the principles of the SDGs. For this purpose, the Committee for Sustainability at the University of Malta (C-SUM) was set-up by Rector in September 2018. 

C-SUM’s remit is to foster a culture of sustainability, encourage staff and students, and academic, support and commercial entities at University by means of relevant information to act more and more with the SDGs in mind, as well as to discuss, support and propose actions that need to be implemented at University in order to improve sustainability on the University campuses and in University programmes. C-SUM reports directly to Rector.

营造可持续发展文化

可持续发展需要对当今经济和社会体系进行长期结构性改变，旨在将环境和资源消耗降至可持续水平，同时保持经济绩效和社会凝聚力。联合国（UN）制定了可持续发展目标（SDGs）作为可持续性行动计划。

大学在培养可持续发展文化方面处于独特地位。它们是主导机构，积极实施可持续措施，并在学术和研究项目中促进可持续性的目标。马耳他大学致力于实现可持续性，体现了可持续发展目标的原则。为此，马耳他大学可持续发展委员会（C-SUM）于2018年9月由校长成立。

C-SUM的任务是培养可持续性文化，鼓励大学的教职员工、学生以及学术、支持和商业实体通过相关信息的手段更多地考虑SDGs，同时讨论、支持并提出需要在大学内实施的行动，以改善大学校园和大学课程的可持续性。C-SUM直接向校长汇报。