Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 79.72
Liaison Emma Blandford
Submission Date Feb. 7, 2012
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Georgia Institute of Technology
OP-5: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.94 / 14.00 Marcia Kinstler
Sustainability Director
Office of Environmental Stewardship
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Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, 2005 :
219,400 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Off-site, institution-catalyzed carbon offsets generated, 2005:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Third-party verified carbon offsets purchased, 2005:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

On-campus residents, 2005:
7,200

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
15,000

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
920

Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, performance year :
259,999 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Off-site, institution-catalyzed offsets generated, performance year:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Carbon offsets purchased, performance year:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

On-campus residents, performance year:
9,540

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
18,441

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
1,286

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Georgia Tech signed the President's Climate Commitment in APril 2007. It reported its greenhouse gas inventory for FY2008 and FY2010, fulfilling its promise to complete a greenhouse gas inventory within a year a signing the Commitment and to then update it two years later.

Georgia Tech's emissions, normalized for number of FTE went down -1.06%. Our Change in GHG emissions per 1000 sq.ft. building space was -1.831%.


Georgia Tech signed the President's Climate Commitment in APril 2007. It reported its greenhouse gas inventory for FY2008 and FY2010, fulfilling its promise to complete a greenhouse gas inventory within a year a signing the Commitment and to then update it two years later.

Georgia Tech's emissions, normalized for number of FTE went down -1.06%. Our Change in GHG emissions per 1000 sq.ft. building space was -1.831%.

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