Week 9: Student as Agent of Change

After a few weeks of exposure to SDG goals, now it's time for students to do something to bring change to the campus for a better sustainable development environment. 

There are a lot of student projects being implemented in IIUM to produce a nature-sustainable campus. 

There are also 6 indicators for campus sustainability which are: 

• Setting and Infrastructure
• Energy and Climate change
• Waste
• Water
• Transportation
• Education and Research

for each indicator plays an important role in improving specific sectors to achieve a Green and Sustainable Campus. 

From my understanding Green campus is about an environment where most of the activities of action take place, it is all closely related with SDGs which bring a clean environment, zero pollution, security, and many more.

  

For example, of Waste; in IIUM students practice 3R which is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle where they should dump their waste separately according to its label of waste.  Other than that, to apply for Energy and Climate Change, students are encouraged to save energy on campus such as turning off all the electrical appliances in mahallah or classes when it is not used anymore. Moreover, to ensure the good image of the Sustainability Campus in IIUM, especially for the lake in IIUM students will do their very best to take care of the lake by not throwing any rubbish to the lake or any action that will pollute the lake. It is one of the advantages for IIUM students to apply SDG goals in keeping the lake clean because it is one of the goals I SDG which is goal number 6, clean water and sanitation.