{"id":783898,"date":"2026-07-06T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783898\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:26:07","slug":"dalhousie-ranks-top-100-globally-for-sustainability-impact-dal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783898\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalhousie ranks top 100 globally for sustainability impact &#8211; Dal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The efforts of Dalhousie students, faculty, and staff in working to protect the planet, end poverty, and ensure prosperity continue to shine through in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/impactrankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times Higher Education Sustainability\u00a0Impact Ratings<\/a>\u00a0(formerly the Impact\u00a0Rankings).<\/p>\n<p>The annual ranking measures how universities contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), evaluating performance in each area across four pillars: research, stewardship, outreach, and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Dalhousie ranked in the top 100 overall for the fourth consecutive year,\u00a0this time 90th out of 1,603 institutions included\u00a0in the results. It also achieved top 100 status in six individual SDGs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, Dal placed 9th overall out of 30 participating Canadian universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dal\u2019s biggest jumps overall were in\u00a0Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11),\u00a0moving\u00a0into the 59th\u00a0spot\u00a0globally\u00a0from the 101-200 band. (The Sustainable Impact Rankings do not provide specific rankings beyond the top 100 in any category.) In\u00a0Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3), Dal rose\u00a0to the 70th\u00a0spot from the 101-200 band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0how Dal ranked global and nationally across\u00a0all\u00a0its top-performing SDGs:<\/p>\n<p>Scoring strong<\/p>\n<p>Dal\u2019s strong rankings position was fuelled by its high overall score of 89.7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Times Higher Education calculates this result using an institution\u2019s score in SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals) and its three\u00a0highest-scoring\u00a0SDGs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dal\u2019s 2026 score\u00a0breakdown for 2026:<\/p>\n<p>SDG 17\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Partnership for the Goals: 88.3<br \/>\nSDG 09 \u2014 Industry,\u00a0Innovation\u00a0and Infrastructure: 85.5<br \/>\nSDG 14 \u2014 Life Below Water: 85.3<br \/>\nSDG 12 \u2014 Responsible Consumption and Production: 84.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The efforts of Dalhousie students, faculty, and staff in working to protect the planet, end poverty, and ensure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-783898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}