In November 2021, the UN Climate Change Conference (commonly referred to as COP26) shone an unflinching spotlight on the urgent challenges currently facing the physical planet we inhabit (UK Government & United Nations, 2021). The impact on the environment from human activity has been made increasingly evident in recent years in many domains, including in the field of higher education. Efforts to better understand the environmental impact of higher education institutions have included carbon footprint analyses (see for example Helmers, Chang, & Dauwels, 2021 and Valls-Val & Bovea, 2021), while large-scale surveying activities (see for example Stöber, Gaebel, & Morrisroe, 2021 and THE Consultancy, 2021) and various ranking exercises (including the THE Impact Rankings and the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings) provide perspectives on how higher education institutions, students, and other stakeholders around the world relate to considerations of environmental sustainability and operationalize responses.