Title Goes Here In This Position Taking Control of Campus Carbon Management Date: May 9 th , 2013 Presented by: Jay Pearlman and Jeff Murphy Whitworth University Widener University Williams College Worcester State College Xavier University Yeshiva University Youngstown State University
Sightlines' Go Green Manager, Jeff Murphy and Associate Vice President, Jay Pearlman, introduce the full suite of Go Green Services, which includes the Carbon Management and Analysis Platform (CarbonMAP) Set-Up and Validation service.
In this presentation, you will learn how Sightlines' CarbonMAP Set-Up and Validation service will reduce your start-up time, provide greater confidence with the carbon data you report, and offer operational context with percentile rankings of key performance indicators against a verified database of higher education institutions.
Learn how Sightlines' Go Green Services support your campus sustainability efforts.
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Title Goes HereIn This Position
Taking Control of Campus Carbon Management
Date: May 9th, 2013Presented by: Jay Pearlman and Jeff Murphy
CA-CP initiated partnership with Sightlines in 2011
Why Sightlines?• Established Relationships – Sightlines works with over 380
campuses annually on issues of facilities management and operational sustainability.
• Subject Matter Knowledge – Sightlines collects large, diverse sets of data efficiently and effectively. Through strategic analysis and peer comparisons, Sightlines turns that data into the knowledge to take action.
• Unrivaled Experience – With over 350 annual carbon footprint analyses completed with key leadership institutions across the country, Sightlines quickly became the single largest user of the excel-based CCC
Strategic partnership with Clean Air-Cool PlanetGoal: Take the excel-based CCC into the 21st Century
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History of the CCC:• Developed with University of New Hampshire in 2001• Released to the public in 2004• About 200 users in 1st year – now thousands of institutions
around the world• CA-CP estimates that more than 90% of U.S. colleges and
universities that publicly report their GHG emissions use the Campus Carbon Calculator
Why go online?• Easier collaboration – no more emailing around enormous files• Flexible data entry (time period and units)• Seamless updates of GHG accounting standards• Eliminates file transfers to new versions• Customized source selection• Multiple entries allowed for every source and sub-source• Ability to track additional sources not previously covered• Notebook and comment fields• Multiple accounts for curriculum integration• Distributed data collection• Improved dashboards• Database development for tracking national trends• Accessible from anywhere
Remaining institutional challengesValidation service focuses on evaluating existing data
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Data Collection/Processing• Limited campus resources, but time intensive process• Is data collection processing best use of staff time?• Reporting efforts – ACUPCC, STARS, Sierra Club,
Princeton Review, Mass Rideshare Report
Start-up time for CarbonMAP• Account creation• Set-up of institutional data• Population of historical data
Data Quality and Credibility• Changing GHG accounting standards• Assumptions and estimates, especially Scope 3 sources
Comparability and Perspective on Performance• Carnegie Mellon University Researchers on ACUPCC
reporting system:• “Countless errors and problems”• “System isn’t designed to notice”• “Need more quality control”
• Is every school including the same sources?• Is every school using the same emissions factors?
CarbonMAP Setup & Validation Service:• Turnkey transfer of existing inventory data to the CarbonMAP
• Customized user account and institutional set-up• Population of up to 5 years of data inputs from CCC v6.5+
• Validation analysis of data inputs with customized report• Comprehensive – All Scopes and major source accounted for• Credible – Percentile ranking of key performance indicators• Consistent – Analysis of longitudinal data variations• Comparable – Evaluation of accounting methodology, assumptions,
emissions factors, and institutional boundaries
• Presentation and review of findings with a Sightlines expert
Remaining institutional challengesValidation service focuses on evaluating existing data
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Go-Green Services
Data Collection/Processing• Limited campus resources, but time intensive process• Is data collection processing best use of staff time?• Reporting efforts – ACUPCC, STARS, Sierra Club,
Princeton Review, Mass Rideshare Report
Start-up time for CarbonMAP• Account creation• Set-up of institutional data• Population of historical data
Data Quality and Credibility• Changing GHG accounting standards• Assumptions and estimates, especially Scope 3 sources
Comparability and Perspective on Performance• Carnegie Mellon University Researchers on ACUPCC
reporting system:• “Countless errors and problems”• “System isn’t designed to notice”• “Need more quality control”
• Is every school including the same sources?• Is every school using the same emissions factors?
“Go-Green covers our ACUPCC reporting needs, much of our STARS data, plus they collect the data for us and provide high quality analysis and peer benchmarking. This service is a slam dunk”
Betty LombardoSustainability Manager
Arizona State University
What our members are saying
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“We liked the third-party nature of the data collection process, and found the Go-Green Process, to be both timely and within our budget.”
Mike Johnson, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities
University of Arkansas
“The benchmarking was a tremendous help. By comparing our emissions to peers, we have the context and perspective to know not only where we are but where we should be going.”
Mary YatesSustainability Coordinator
Loyola University of Maryland
“It is convenient to have all the data and benchmarks for both facilities and emissions in one easy-to-use website.”
Go-Green Strategy: Sightlines’ climate action planning (CAP) service• Establishes carbon neutrality target date and interim reduction targets
• Based on peer targets• Carbon profile/ability to attain target (both $ and human capital)• Campus leadership goals
• Identifies potential carbon mitigation projects• Project ranking system utilizes multiple metrics including
• Carbon impact (MTCDE reduced)• Cost per ton reduced • Simple payback period• Community engagement/visibility opportunity
• Develops phase-out plan for attain carbon neutrality
Additional sustainability consulting servicesAiding campus with deeper analyses and data collection services
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STARS Start-Up Service:• Facilitates selection of credits to pursue given institutional profile• Aids campus in first year data collection effort for AASHE STARS program• Consolidate, process and enter data into STARS Reporting Tool• Submission of STARS data• Maintain detailed record of process to enable the institution to replicate with
minimal time commitment and disruption in future years