Climate Change & Sustainable Policy

Climate Change & Sustainable Policy

Sustainability/Climate Policy

Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), Gazipur, sincerely aims to set a university strategy following the Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 2030 (CSAP). Our university wants to comprise CSAP strategies and action plans, incorporating the climate-related challenges and opportunities to contribute to sustainability.

A focused collaboration with the faculty members, students, professionals, and service employees is essential to DUET's sustainability and climate policy endeavor. All stakeholders continuously share and monitor their insights into the direction and content of our strategy, ensuring that our work is sufficiently ambitious and up to the task of addressing the climate emergency. By building on our institutional strengths, we want to become one of Banladesh’s most sustainable research-intensive institutions.

Sustainable Investment Policy

Our university is committed to social justice and sustainability, we aspire to contribute to a more just, humane and sustainable world. Therefore, we always prefer a sustainable approach for our investment policy. Our mission and strategic priority is to exercise ethical and social stewardship in its investment policy and practices.

Engagement With Sustainability Action

We engage students to work on sustainability. Out students also show their passion which drives us to achieve our social and environmental goals. Students actively engage in improving its environmental impact by participating in volunteering projects. Students can lead campaigns and help shape by campaigning on environmental and social challenges.

Plans Towards Carbon Emission

The DUET recognizes the climate crisis as one of the most pressing issues. Our commitment is to become carbon neutral by 2050. Since 2022, we have been working toward carbon neutrality goals as the university is sincerely committed to climate action. Our commitments include:

  • To foster a culture of sustainability with social justice
  • To establish goals by 2025 for a wide range of indirect emission sources (Scope 3).
  • To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from purchased electricity (Scope 2) to net zero by 2025.
  • To eliminate campus emissions (Scope 1) by 2050.

We have initiated solar panels and have private use of solar panels in the university. Students and teachers have several research grant programs to promote and improve the solar system.