In the two-day annual meeting, the participants summarized the activities of IARU in the past year of 2009 and deliberated over the 2010 annual plan of the Alliance. Presidents from Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo, Yale University and Peking University attended the meeting.

Since the meeting was just after the Copenhagen Summit, "Green Campus" and "Sustainable Campus" became the focus of participants.

The representative from Yale University made a brief presentation on the situation of their students' efforts in founding associations for sustainable development. He emphasized that the university benefits from students' efforts and in turn the students have enhanced their leadership while reaching out to society. The representative from University of Copenhagen presented the project of "Environment-friendly Lighthouse" and further introduced the cooperation between the university and research institutions and governments. Representatives from Oxford University also introduced the progress of their researches and listened to recommendations from other participants.

At the meeting, Academician Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University, introduced efforts and achievements of Peking University in building a "Green Campus." He pointed out that Peking University has been devoted to the building of "Low Carbon Campus" and "Green Campus." Peking University has been trying to raise environmental awareness on campus and encouraging students to initiate and join in activities aimed at improving the ecological environment, e.g. paper recycling, tree planting, etc. The leading and distinguished efforts made by PKU scholars in the construction of a society of sustainable development were particularly mentioned in President Zhou's speech. For example, Prof. Pan Wenshi, known as "the Father of Panda", has been leading his students to observe and study pandas in their natural habitat for years and advocating the idea of preserving the ecological environment, which has aroused extensive social concern.