İzmir Institute of Technology sustainability report 2021

Abstract

İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) aims at creating a sustainable and resilient campus environment that outreaches the boundaries of the campus in order to serve the in-campus and out-campus communities alike. In line with this main aim, IZTECH has initiated application to the Greenmetric World University Ranking that was developed by Universitas Indonesia. Therefore, IZTECH has undertaken a gap analysis in terms of its sustainability performance by determining the current situation and the future targets. There were 6 main topics to investigate and eventually improve: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate, Waste, Water, Transportation, Education and Research. October 2021 marks IZTECH’s second year of application to the Greenmetric Ranking. In its first year IZTECH was ranked 217th out of 912 institutions. In order to determine the scopes to develop and improve from each rankingIZTECH endeavors to create a sustainable campus environment