Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 61.53 |
Liaison | Rachael Wein |
Submission Date | March 2, 2020 |
Smith College
OP-2: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.81 / 8.00 |
Stephanie
Choi Sustainability Coordinator CEEDS |
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Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions
Gross GHG emissions
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Gross Scope 1 GHG emissions from stationary combustion | 20,454.52 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 18,510.90 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Gross Scope 1 GHG emissions from other sources | 250.50 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 409.50 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Gross Scope 2 GHG emissions from imported electricity | 2,372.80 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 11,704.70 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Gross Scope 2 GHG emissions from imported thermal energy | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Total | 23,077.82 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 30,625.10 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Carbon sinks
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Third-party verified carbon offsets purchased | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 363.60 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Institution-catalyzed carbon offsets generated | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Carbon storage from on-site composting | 107.30 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Carbon storage from non-additional sequestration | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | --- |
Carbon sold or transferred | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Net carbon sinks | 107.30 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 363.60 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
If total performance year carbon sinks are greater than zero, provide:
Smith composts pre and post consumer waste at a nearby farm. We composted roughly 365 tons of food waste in FY18. We no longer have horses on campus and thus, no longer compost horse manure and waste. This made up a large portion of our compost tonnage in previous years.
Adjusted net GHG emissions
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Adjusted net GHG emissions | 22,970.52 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 30,261.50 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Performance and baseline periods
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Start date | July 1, 2017 | July 1, 2004 |
End date | June 30, 2018 | June 30, 2005 |
A brief description of when and why the GHG emissions baseline was adopted:
Oldest year that had consistent data
Part 1. Reduction in GHG emissions per person
Weighted campus users
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Number of students resident on-site | 2,281 | 2,400 |
Number of employees resident on-site | 6 | 6 |
Number of other individuals resident on-site | 0 | 0 |
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment | 3,076 | 2,796 |
Full-time equivalent of employees | 1,259 | 1,128 |
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education | 0 | 0 |
Weighted Campus Users | 3,823 | 3,544.50 |
Metrics used in scoring for Part 1
Performance year | Baseline year | |
Adjusted net Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions per weighted campus user | 6 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent | 8.54 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Percentage reduction in adjusted net Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions per weighted campus user from baseline:
29.62
Part 2. GHG emissions per unit of floor area
Performance year floor area
296,983.48
Gross square meters
Floor area of energy intensive building space, performance year:
Floor area | |
Laboratory space | 3,449.95 Square meters |
Healthcare space | 1,016.64 Square meters |
Other energy intensive space | 3,716.12 Square meters |
EUI-adjusted floor area, performance year:
309,632.79
Gross square meters
Metric used in scoring for Part 2
0.07
MtCO2e per square meter
A brief description of the institution’s GHG emissions reduction initiatives:
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Website URL where information about the institution's GHG emissions is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Since we have carried over our waste data from 2016, the note we enter in our last report is still relevant: we have entered 0 into "waste generated in operations" because our solid waste waste goes to a waste-to-energy plant operated by Covanta. When we input our tons of solid waste into the CACP calculator in the 'mass burn' section, we receive a negative number of 23.1, which is a carbon savings. There is no option to enter a negative number into the data field, so we enter 0. We received guidance on this from Jennifer Andrews, project director of the Sustainability Institute at UNH.
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