KAUST has just released its 2025 KAUST SDG Highlight Report reflecting how sustainability is embedded across the institution. This year’s report brings together examples of how sustainability is being advanced in the University through education, research, innovation, operations, outreach, and partnerships. Covering all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this year’s edition introduces the connection between KAUST’s activities and specific SDG targets, new metrics of output alignment, and incorporates the 2024-2026 Communication on Engagement to the United Nations Global Compact, reaffirming KAUST’s commitment to its Ten Principles and to advancing sustainable development.

More importantly, this report reflects the collective efforts that make this progress possible. It demonstrates how the contributions from everyone across the KAUST community come together to support meaningful action on local and global sustainability challenges.

With this new report, KAUST aims to showcase how each community member has an important role to play in institutionalizing sustainability, and how cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations can lead to impactful contributions.

The full bilingual report is available here