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The Little Book of Green Nudges | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

The Little Book of Green Nudges | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

The Little Book of Green Nudges is a quick guide to reducing your campus' environmental impact through behavioural change in the form of a concise and user-friendly publication. It summarises the evidence around what nudges work best while seeking to encourage more sustainable practices among students and staff across several behavioural categories. It also provides simple guidance on how to implement and evaluate behavioural interventions in a variety of contexts.

What Are Nudges?

Nudges are positive and gentle persuasions that are meant to influence behaviour and decision-making. Such interventions include choice architecture, default setting, social influence and increased salience.

Target Audience

Anyone who wants to create positive change at their university, anywhere around the world, from provosts to campus sustainability coordinators to professors to student leaders.

Who are involved? 

Following higher education institutions* have committed to take this green nudges journey with us. 

1. Indraprastha College for Women (India)
2. University of Nigeria Nsukka (Nigeria)
3. Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (Mexico)
4. Felix Houphouët-Boigny University (Ivory Coast)
5. Hong Kong Bapsist University (China)
6. Uganda Martyrs University (Uganda)
7. University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan)
8. Fouray Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)
9. Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences (India)
10. Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile)
11. Ndejje University (Uganda)
12. Mahidol University (Thailand)
13. University of Worcester (UK)
14. Elon University (USA)
15. Daemen College (USA)
16. Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
17. Technische Universität München (Germany)
18. Northwestern Polytechnical University (China)
19. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
20. Heritage School Vasant Kunj (India)
21. University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)
22. University of Surrey (UK)
23. Champlain College (USA)
24. Birla Institute of Technology and Science (India)
25. Universidad Libre (Colombia)
26. China West Normal University (China)
27. University of Ghana (Ghana)
28. Universidad de Chile (Chile)
29. Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (India)
30. Universidad Nacional de Villa María (Argentina)
31. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
32. Furman University (USA)
33. Glasgow School of Art (Scotland)
34. University of Stirling (UK)
35. Universidad Católica de Manizales (Colombia)
36. Sharda University (India)
37. Miranda House, University of Delhi (India)
38. Prince of Songkla University (Thailand)
39. Durham University (UK)
40. King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand)
41. Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Germany)
42. Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj (India)
43. Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
44. Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico)
45. American University of Sharjah (UAE)
46. Asn Senior Secondary School (India)
47. Cardiff University (UK)
48. Karatina University (Kenya)
49. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)
50. Universidad Católica de Santa María (Peru)
51. Kenyatta University (Kenya)
52. Pikes Peak Community College (USA)
53. McGill University (Canada)
54. Pacific University (USA)
55. Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
56. Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia)
57. Universidad Católica de Colombia (Colombia)
58. HEC Paris (France)
59. Universidad Católica Andres Bello (Venezuela)
60. Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín (Colombia)
61. Lehigh University (USA)
62. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
63. University of Malta (Malta)
64. Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí (Ecuador)
65. Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Peru)
66. Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia)
67. Kedge Business School (France)
68. Universidad de Manizales (Colombia)
69. Bard College (USA)
70. University of Strathclyde (Scotland)
71. University of Rochester (USA)
72. University of Poitiers (France)
73. Falmouth University (sharing campus with University of Exeter)
74. University of Padua (Italy)
75. Bournemouth University (UK)
76. Universidad Ean (Colombia)
77. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
78. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
79. University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
80. Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)
81. Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)
82. University of British Columbia (Canada)
83. Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia)
84. Universidad La Salle (Mexico)
85. Daystar University (Kenya)
86. Uppsala University (Sweden)
87. Walailak University (Thailand)
88. University of Turku (Finland)
89. City of Glasgow College (Scotland)
90. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Scotland)
91. University of Pavia (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
92. University of York (UK)
93. Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi (India)
94. Harper Adams University (UK)
95. El Bosque University (Colombia)
96. Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile)
97. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (USA)
98. Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (Bolivia)
99. Universidad Simón Bolívar (Colombia)
100. Bridgewater State University (USA)
101. UWE Bristol (UK)
102. Universidad Anáhuac México (Mexico)
103. University of Glasgow (Glasgow)
104. University of Waterloo (Canada)
105. Abdullah Gül University (Turkey)
106. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
107. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Nigeria)
108. University of Benin (Nigeria)
109. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
110. University of Peloponnese (Greece)
111. Kathmandu University (Nepal)
112. Unidad Ambiental de la Universidad de El Salvador (El Salvador)
113. Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam (Ecuador)
114. Universidad de Colima (Mexico)
115. Universidad Technologica de Honduras (Honduras)
116. Universidad Gerardo Barrios (El Salvador)
117. Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (Mexico)
118. Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional (Costa Rica)
119. Athens University of Economics and Bussiness (Greece)
120. Fordham University (USA)
121. Aalto University (Finland)
122. Siam University (Thaialnd)
123. Universidad Continental (Peru)

*at least one member, student group and/or faculty from each institution