2001%20UF%20GHG%20Profile%20-%20Slideshow

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UF Sustainability Task Force carbon neutral
assessment project
November, 2001
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Carbon Neutral reducing ones own emissions as
much as possible, and creating reductions
elsewhere to achieve a net balance of zero.
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Carbon Neutrality and UF
Using cost savings from Energy Reductions as a
vehicle to achieve Carbon Neutrality.

• Model on-campus, off-campus and community
  projects
• Identified investments for sound fiscal and high
  social impact
• Design neutrality plan to function at no net cost

Prepared by Mark van Soestbergen, ICBE
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What did we do

• - Looked at Energy bills and other consumption
  data
• - Tried to look inside buildings
• - Hunted down examples of energy retrofits
• - Profiled energy savings and resulting GHG
  reductions of retrofits
• - Created basic cost-benefit matrix

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UF greenhouse gas profile
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Tried to look inside buildings
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Collected on-campus examples of retrofits
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Created cost-benefit matrix based on common
examples
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Measured on-campus, off-campus and community
projects
view
Off campus projects
Community projects
On campus projects
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Measured on-campus, off-campus and community
projects
CO2 view
Community reductions
Off campus reductions
On campus reductions
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Identified investments with sound fiscal and high
social impact
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Identified investments with sound fiscal and high
social impact
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Identified investments with sound fiscal and high
social impact
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Simulated emissions offset portfolio
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Staging investments to generate a revolving fund

• Cost effective
• implement low cost high return projects first
• adopt energy efficiency in purchasing policies
• enable students to choose carbon neutrality
• piggy back research and publication onto these
  activities

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carbon neutrality eliminates UFs impact on
climate change
Carbon neutrality is possible at no net cost
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Project concept by Greening UF
Dedee DeLongpre Office of SustainabilityUniversit
y of Florida352-392-7581 www.sustainable.ufl.edu