| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 59.08 |
| Liaison | John Pumilio |
| Submission Date | July 17, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Colgate University
PAE-5: Climate Action Plan
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
John
Pumilio Director of Sustainability Sustainability Office |
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Does the institution have a plan to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes
A brief summary of the climate plan’s long-term goals:
The Sustainability and Climate Action Plan establishes the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2019.
A brief summary of the climate plan’s short-term goals:
The Sustainability and Climate Action Plan is a year-by-year roadmap to advance sustainability and achieve climate neutrality by Colgate's bicentennial celebration in 2019. To achieve this ambitious target, we agreed on 27 projects that could be implemented by 2015. We anticipate that these projects would reduce Colgate's greenhouse gas emissions by 35% by 2015 (to 11,249 tons).
Projects range from low-cost, high-impact behavior-change strategies such as the Green Office and Green Living Programs, to capital-intensive and technologically complex engineering projects such as the heating plant upgrade (fuel switching from #6 oil to natural gas).
By 2015, our goal will be to implement these projects and in the process:
eliminate fuel oil #6 consumption on campus by replacing it with natural gas (depending on its future availability in Hamilton, N.Y.).
reduce electricity consumption by nearly 5,000,000 kWh
reduce fuel oil #2 consumption by over 10,000 gallons
reduce gasoline consumption by over 3,000 gallons
reduce diesel consumption by 800 gallons
reduce water consumption by nearly 6,000,000 gallons
reduce landfill waste by over 300 tons
reduce paper consumption by over 10,000 pounds
reduce food purchasing expenditures by over $100,000
reduce air travel expenditures by nearly $20,000
Year the climate plan was formally adopted or approved:
2,011
An indication of whether institution has made a commitment to reduce GHG emissions a specific amount by a target year:
Yes
List which emissions (scope 1, 2, and/or 3) are included in its GHG emissions commitment:
1, 2, and 3.
The reduction level (percentage) institution has committed to:
35
The baseline year the institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
June 1, 2009
The baseline emissions level institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
17353
The target year the institution specified in its GHG emissions commitment :
June 30, 2019
The website URL where information about the climate plan is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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