SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 12 highlights the need for resource efficiency and adopting sustainable procurement policies. It includes the management of harmful wastes and chemicals in a way the reduces their negative impact […]
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for access to clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Its key founding principles further highlight the need for increasing the share of […]
SDG 14: Life Below Water
SDG 14 is complementary to SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. SDG 6 targets universal access to clean water and sanitation services, increasing the treatment of wastewater, improving water use […]
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 4 speaks to the responsibility of post-secondary institutions in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, and the promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all. The targets reflected in this […]
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
The decade 2018 – 2028 has been declared by the United Nations as the Water Action Decade – averting a global water crisis. The aim is to “bring a greater […]
SDG 15: Life on Land
SDG 15 seeks to protect, restore and promote the conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial, inland freshwater and mountain ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems provide many and varied services and benefits to […]
SDG 13: Climate Action
Post-secondary institutions, in general, are positioned well to advance efforts to address sustainability challenges through education, research, and translation to practice across their campuses as microcosms of society. In British […]
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
The British Columbia Institute of Technology acknowledges that our campuses are located on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Nations of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam). […]
Sustainable Development Goals
We define sustainability as “enabling people to lead socially just lives within ecological limits.” While efforts to date at BCIT have focused primarily around the environment, our definition reflects the […]
About Institute Sustainability
Institute Sustainability leads a coordinated approach to sustainability at BCIT. The BCIT Sustainability Vision defines sustainability as “enabling people to lead socially just lives within ecological limits.” We aim to […]