Sustainability Action Plan

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY

UW-STOUT’S GHG EMISSIONS BY YEAR

UW-Stout regularly completes a comprehensive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory. The Sustainability Office collects greenhouse gas data points from various campus departments, and works with UW-Stout’s Applied Research Center (ARC) to do a commuter survey of students, faculty, and staff to gather data on our campus GHG emissions associated with travel. We then calculate our GHG emissions data using Sustainability Indicator Management & Analysis Platform (SIMAP). SIMAP is a carbon and nitrogen-accounting platform that tracks and analyzes campus-wide sustainability efforts. UW-Stout began using it in 2015, as a replacement to the Campus Carbon Calculator 1 . SIMAP measures GHG emissions in three scopes, detailed below.

The following are UW-Stout’s GHG emissions from FY2007 2 to FY2018.

Fiscal year

Scope 1 (Measured in MTCDE 3 ) 11,957.60 12,323.50 12,079.00 11,823.80 13,694.30 12,971.00 12,597.26 11,111.22 10,555.65 10,629.17 10,636.87

Scope 2 (Measured in MTCDE)

Scope 3 (Measured in MTCDE)

Total

36,037.20 36,477.20 34,156.40 39,909.60 36,226.30 30,997.00 32,643.71 32,588.61 31,966.58 30,583.68 32,654.06

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

12,190.50 11,889.10 11,929.20 12,224.50

12,950.90

9,126.50

17,503.10 10,582.70

SCOPE 1

SCOPE 3

13,308.40 12,778.00 14,391.58 16,207.06 15,254.05 14,408.56 14,361.52

9,223.60 5,248.00 5,654.87 5,270.33 6,156.88 5,545.95 7,655.67

On-Campus Stationary Sources: Includes renewable energy, natural gas, coal, and oil

Faculty and Staff Commuting

Air Travel: Includes faculty, staff, students, and study abroad air travel

Direct Transportation Sources: Includes fleet gasoline and fleet diesel

Personal Vehicle Mileage Reimbursement

Refrigerants & Chemicals: Includes HFCs, HCFCs, and other refrigerants

Solid Waste

Agriculture Sources: Includes synthetic and organic fertilizer

Wastewater

* No GHG Emissions Inventory was conducted in FY2012

Purchased Paper

SCOPE 2

Purchased Electricity

SCOPE 1

SCOPE 2

SCOPE 3

Purchased Renewable Energy

1 CCC was a tool to help organizations determine how much they are contributing to global climate change, and how they could better manage their GHG emissions. The CCC was originally developed by Clean Air/Cool Planet and the Sustainability Institute at University of New Hampshire.

2 UW-Stout’s fiscal year is from July 1-June 30. For example, FY2007 is July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007. 3 Metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent

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