University features in Global Goals Yearbook

13 Sep 2019

Our University is the only university in the world to be featured in the Yearbook

Following the University’s recent success in the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, where the University was ranked first in Europe and third in the world for our social and environmental impact, and the publication of our Sustainable Development Goals report, we have further highlighted our impact in a double-page feature in the Global Goals Yearbook 2019. 

The University of Manchester is the only University in the world to be featured in the Yearbook, alongside some very well-known global brands. Our feature focuses on three specific areas of social responsibility; The Works, the Equity and Merit Scholarship Programme and FutureDAMS. It highlights how each of these are addressing a number of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, locally and globally. 

The Global Goals Yearbook is a publication in support of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the advancement of corporate sustainability globally. It offers proactive and in-depth information on key sustainability issues and promotes unique and comprehensive knowledge-exchange and learning. The aim of the Yearbook is to help advance corporate transparency, promote the sharing of good business practices and provide a strong voice to the regional and global stakeholders that are at the heart of the sustainability agenda. 

This year’s main focus is ‘Aligning Profit with Purpose’. Along with a number of known authors, it also includes an exclusive feature with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. With more than 400,000 readers all over the world the yearbook is one of the most widely distributed CSR publications and we are proud to be part of this.

A pdf of the Yearbook is available and a small number of print copies are available from the Office for Social Responsibility.