Medium- and Long-term Targets Targets | Ritsumeikan RACE TO CARBON NEUTRAL | RITSUMEIKAN×Sustainability

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	FY2019 Achieved	FY2020 Medium-term Target^*	FY2050Long-term Target^*
Water consumption^** per student	down 13.0%	down 25%	down 50%
Total ordinary waste ^**	down 38.8%	down 25%	down 50%
Education & research	Produce people with strong environmental awareness and capacity to lead environmental protection and impact reduction activities in diverse fields Offer our campuses as venues for field experiments in industry-academia technology development. At the same time, use the opportunity to advance environmental impact reduction on our campuses, thereby creating a beneficial cycle.
Working with local communities	Encourage students to engage in activities for supporting local communities. Strengthen collaboration between individual campuses and government agencies.
Collaboration with affiliated universities	Support affiliated universities’ efforts to reduce environmental impacts, thereby contributing to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.
Action updates and other information-sharing	Actively provide information on our environmental initiatives so that all Academy constituents can understand the issues and tackle them actively, thereby leading to the overall advance of environmental impact reduction.

* Target for environmental impact reduction established at the time the Ritsumeikan Global Environment Committee was formed in 2010.
** Versus FY2008 for energy and water and FY2010 for ordinary waste.