More than 120 academicians from 23 universities across the UAE met on 3rd February 2016 to commemorate the 19th National Environment Day and to discuss sustainability in campuses through an interactive workshop. The expectation from the workshop was to develop a nationwide guideline for embedding sustainability across all campuses in the UAE As a part of the Sustainable Campus Initiative, this workshop was a follow up from the previous one held last year, which had resulted in identifying an urgent need for mainstreaming sustainability across the UAE’s universities and campuses. Through this year’s workshop, an effort was made by the participating university diaspora to translate the need into an action plan. Representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, EAD, ADEC, Borouge, declared their support and commitment for promoting sustainability in universities through their speeches. The key note address was delivered by Professor Arjen Wals, a renowned expert on weaving sustainability in the higher education sector from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. The workshop worked around 5 major thrust areas before arriving at the final guideline. These were setting the scope of embedding sustainability in our campuses and identifying capacity building and training needs, assigning roles and responsibilities; embedding sustainability into our campus infrastructure and operations; engaging with communities and integrating sustainability into curricula and promoting research on sustainability. This workshop saw the formation of a unified sustainability policy and a framework for action. Main stakeholders from the universities such as the deans, professors, coordinators and students along with the government entities engaged in meaningful discussions to arrive at the final outcome. The final policy will be ready and officially published soon.