Carbon footprint of a university in a multiregional model: the case of the University of Castilla-La Mancha

Gómez, Nuria; Cadarso, María‐Ángeles; Monsalve, Fabio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.009

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“…Estos resultados son inferiores a los encontrados en estudios de diferentes instituciones. En la Universidad de Montfort, en Inglaterra, fueron determinadas 2.3 t co 2 e por estudiante (Ozawa-Meida, Brockway, Letten, Davies y Fleming, 2013); en la Universidad Noruega de Ciencia y Tecnología, 4.6 t co 2 e por estudiante (Larsen et al, 2013), y en la Universidad CasPara el caso de aguas residuales industriales, el factor de emisión se determinó a partir de las directrices establecidas por el ipcc para aguas residuales, empleando la ecuación 2. tilla-La Mancha, en España, 0.74 t co 2 e por estudiante (Gómez, Cadarso y Monsalve, 2016). Sin embargo, es necesario tener en cuenta que los dos primeros estudios contemplaron el transporte de los estudiantes a las universidades, mientras que en el presente estudio y en el de la Universidad Castilla-La Mancha este pará-metro no fue involucrado.…”

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Inventario de gases efecto invernadero en la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Utadeo)

Piñeros¹,

Moreno²,

Aristizábal³

2017

Revista Mutis

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Las universidades, como instituciones de educación superior, deben asumir compromisos ambientales, y estos compromisos requieren políticas claras y acertadas, así como la adopción de estrategias que involucren la cuantificación de sus impactos. En este estudio se presenta el inventario de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) en la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Utadeo), sede Bogotá, correspondiente al año 2015. Mediante la identificación y clasificación de las principales actividades desarrolladas en la institución y la posterior colección de datos de entrada de materia y energía se cuantificaron las emisiones de GEI en CO2 equivalentes, acorde con la norma ISO 14064-1 (2006). En los límites organizacionales de la Utadeo se establecieron diez fuentes de emisión. En el alcance I se calcularon 138.163 t CO2e, atribuido a procesos de combustión de diésel y gas natural en el funcionamiento de plantas eléctricas, cafeterías y laboratorios; en el alcance II, 628.833 t CO2e, que corresponden a las emisiones indirectas por consumo de energía eléctrica en diversas actividades educativas y académicas. Además, en emisiones indirectas del alcance III se cuantificaron 921,368 t CO2e, asociadas a la infraestructura, transporte aéreo, consumo de papel, agua y generación de residuos. El inventario de GEI de la Universidad fue de 1688.36 t CO2e, y las emisiones comprendidas en el alcance III fueron las que hicieron mayor aporte.

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Inventario de gases efecto invernadero en la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Utadeo)

Piñeros¹,

Moreno²,

Aristizábal³

2017

Revista Mutis

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“…Ignoring potential differences between the production structures of domestic companies and FMNEs might create uncertainties on the results. In order to test the inaccuracy level of our results, we analyze the consequences that uncertainties in the technological structure and CO 2 emissions intensities have on the FMNEs’ PF, using the Monte Carlo method, which has been widely used in input–output analysis for the same purpose (Berners‐Lee, Howard, Moss, Kaivanto, & Scott, 2011; Gómez, Cadarso, & Monsalve, 2016; Lenzen, Wood, & Wiedmann, 2010). We applied two types of perturbations and ran 5.000 random simulations for each of them, assuming a uniform distribution of the errors.…”

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The carbon footprint of foreign multinationals within the European Union

Ortiz

Cadarso

Santiago

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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Although European countries have made great efforts to reduce their territorial carbon emissions, global emissions are still growing. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating within Europe, as transnational institutions, can make significant contributions in translating European efforts into global emissions reduction. Here, we estimate the carbon footprint of the foreign multinationals’ affiliates (FMNEs) operating within the European Union (EU) in 2015 as a first assessment of the MNEs’ potential regarding European and global carbon emissions reduction targets. Our findings show that FMNEs generate 17% of the total carbon footprint of the EU but only 12% of the total value added. Thus, the net impacts of FMNE are considered to be in environmental deficit because their adverse environmental impacts are relatively higher than their positive economic ones. Calculations are made under the assumption that FMNEs produce using the same technology as their domestic peers; therefore, the carbon/economic imbalance found is attributed to the FMNEs’ distribution across sectors. The participation of FMNEs in carbon‐intensive industrial sectors are remarkably high in low‐income EU members; therefore, the effective reduction of the carbon footprint in those countries is largely conditioned by the decisions of foreign MNEs’ headquarters. Furthermore, those countries are more vulnerable to capital leakages in the case where a European carbon tax was to be imposed. We conclude by discussing the economic and policy implications of the country‐level inequality of MNEs’ environmental impacts within the EU.

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“…Various authors like Stephens andGrahm, 2010 andWiedmann andMinx, 2008 have addressed that to focus on this there was a large number of initiatives; most of them have quite a broad scope: the role of universities in creating knowledge, integrating sustainability in education and research programs and the promotion of the environmental issues to the society. As per Gomez et al, 2016 that the campus produced around 3000 tons of CO2 equivalent, with Scope 1, 2 and 3 accounting for 4%, 24% and 72%, respectively. Li et al, 2015 developed a novel methodology for estimating an average student's personal carbon footprint and deployed it at a university in Shanghai.…”

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Assessment of Greenness Through Carbon Footprint

Dangayach

Gaurav

Jeevraj

2020

mijst

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With increasing global GHG emissions it is very important for global to reduce the harmful effect of GHG emissions for future generations. Since the last decade Carbon footprint has become one of the major concern for educational institutions to get their environmental impact and quantify sustainability effort. MNIT Jaipur campus is one of the technical institutes that decided to measure its carbon footprint. This research presents the maiden Carbon Footprint study of MNIT Jaipur Campus. This study was conducted using IPCC methodology with scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3.The scope 1 includes the direct transportation of campus and LPG consumptions. In scope 2, electricity was the only source of emission whereas scope 3 includes staff commuting, bore well water supply, wastewater treatment, papers, aluminum can and solid waste. The total carbon footprint of MNIT Jaipur Campus was calculated to be 1182.69 ton CO2 eq. This study concludes that 29% of the overall carbon footprint was found from purchased electricity. While emissions from LPG consumption (26%), solid waste (16%), water supply (12%) and aluminum can (10%).The activities wastewater (4%), staff commuting (1%) and direct transportation (1%) have low emission compare to other activities. GHG emission percentage from papers, staff commuting, and MATTER: International Journal of Science and Technology ISSN 2454-5880 72 direct transportation are negligible. This has a great contribution to achieving carbon neutrality of the campus. The per capita average emission found to be 0.273 ton CO2 eq. per person per year.Scope 3 emission has the highest contribution to the overall emission. From the literature, it was found that very few previous studies included scope 3 for calculating the carbon footprint, but this study shows that educational institutions have a significant impact on scope 3. Therefore every institution has needed to include the entire source associated with scope 3.

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Carbon footprint of a university in a multiregional model: the case of the University of Castilla-La Mancha

Cited by 48 publications

References 56 publications

Inventario de gases efecto invernadero en la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Utadeo)

Inventario de gases efecto invernadero en la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Utadeo)

The carbon footprint of foreign multinationals within the European Union

Assessment of Greenness Through Carbon Footprint

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