Campus Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting

Campus Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting

How else can you “see” change?How else can you “see” change?

Objective: Annual Reporting Objective: Annual Reporting

Quality, Reliability, Accessibility Awareness, Participation, Learning,

Adaptation Planning, Prioritizing, Cooperation

Accountability !

Quality, Reliability, Accessibility Awareness, Participation, Learning,

Adaptation Planning, Prioritizing, Cooperation

Accountability !

Metric DecisionsMetric Decisions Direct vs Indirect Chain of Impacts Boundaries Spatial Scale / Resolution Time interval / frequency Resolution Composition of Aggregated Elements Normalizing

Evaluation and Interpretation Achieving Thresholds vs Trends Inter-University Comparisons Grades, Points, Stars, etc

Direct vs Indirect Chain of Impacts Boundaries Spatial Scale / Resolution Time interval / frequency Resolution Composition of Aggregated Elements Normalizing

Evaluation and Interpretation Achieving Thresholds vs Trends Inter-University Comparisons Grades, Points, Stars, etc

Data Quality: Uncertainty and Precision

Data Quality: Uncertainty and Precision

Need Meta-Data

Regional Land Footprint

MacDonald Downtown Mont-St-Hillaire / Gault Reserve

Montreal

* Field stations not included

76% Land is Natural Habitat

Land Footprint

2 4

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Downtown MolsonReserve

MacDonald Gault NatureReserve

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age

Energy Consumption Trend(controlled for climate and space)

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1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

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Greenhouse Gas EmissionsControlled for Climate variations

12.513.013.514.014.515.015.516.016.5

1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

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O2

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Results: Energy and GHG

2005 Greenhouse Gas Inventory

0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000

Tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Solid Waste

Campus Fleet

Agriculture

Electricity

Official Air Travel

Commuter Travel

Natural Gas

Energy and GHG (Near Future)Energy and GHG (Near Future)

Pegasus EMS 3D Visualization

Online Access !

Materials and Recycling

Recycling NumbersWaste Numbers

300 new indoor VPM bins installed17 new outdoor VPM stations installed

Expect to see Change

Materials and WasteTracking the Paper Use Policy

Materials and WasteTracking the Paper Use Policy

“See” Change?

Paper Purchasing

Materials and WasteFuture Goals

Materials and WasteFuture Goals

Concordia data

Coming Soon … McGill Forests Carbon Inventory !

(Gault Nature Reserve)

Coming Soon … McGill Forests Carbon Inventory !

(Gault Nature Reserve)

Using LiDAR Remote Sensing data

Thanks to:Thanks to:

Mrs. Kathy Zendehbad, Anna Gentile, Gabriela Pinto, Julie Chevalier, Jo-Ann Sciampacone, Kathleen Ng and Mr. Radu Juster, Stanley Glavac, Marc Dozois, Daniel Faucher, Pierre Leblanc, Alain Fournier, Michel Gauthier, Eric Champagne, Normand Lague, Claude Lahaie, Bill Pageau, Angelo Tambasco, Peter Knox and especially Mrs. and more recently Mr. Dennis Fortune.

Mrs. Kathy Zendehbad, Anna Gentile, Gabriela Pinto, Julie Chevalier, Jo-Ann Sciampacone, Kathleen Ng and Mr. Radu Juster, Stanley Glavac, Marc Dozois, Daniel Faucher, Pierre Leblanc, Alain Fournier, Michel Gauthier, Eric Champagne, Normand Lague, Claude Lahaie, Bill Pageau, Angelo Tambasco, Peter Knox and especially Mrs. and more recently Mr. Dennis Fortune.