The college campus carbon emission accounting platform is online, and colleges and universities nationwide can use it for free

Homepage of College Campus Carbon Emissions Accounting and Evaluation Platform

China News Service, Shanghai, October 29th (Xie Mengyuan Yumei) Recently, the Green University Working Committee of China Building Energy Conservation Association and Tongji University jointly organized an online press conference to announce the official launch of the campus carbon emission accounting platform for colleges and universities. Carbon emissions accounting provides tools to help build a digital base for campus carbon management, which is free for colleges and universities across the country.

It is reported that there are currently more than 30 universities registered on the platform, of which more than 10 are standard participating units, and will also become the leading universities for campus carbon accounting demonstrations, including Tongji University, Tianjin University, Zhejiang University, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jiangnan University Wait.

In principle, the platform uses colleges and universities as a unit for user registration, but considering the enthusiasm of the public for learning, it will gradually build and improve the classification application of different user groups, and may launch general research and learning groups in the future for individual users to register.

Inventory of campus carbon emissions in the campus carbon emissions accounting and evaluation platform of colleges and universities (part)

Wu Jiang, former executive vice president of Tongji University, dean of the Yangtze River Delta Institute for Sustainable Development, and co-chairman of the UN Environment Global Environmental Sustainable Development University Alliance YEA, said at the press conference: "On the one hand, we send a signal to the whole society that the school What can be done in this regard (Double-Carbon Goals), but more importantly, through this platform, our school can play an exemplary role, and at the same time, more teachers and students on campus can experience our work, study and life. What does it have to do with this 'double carbon'."

Tan Hongwei, Secretary General of the Green University Working Committee of China Building Energy Conservation Association and Executive Deputy Director of the Green Building and New Energy Research Center of Tongji University, is in charge of the development of the platform. He said that university campuses are major energy consumption and carbon emissions, and the purpose of campus carbon emissions accounting It is to promote the low-carbon process of higher education institutions and university campuses. Although it is currently in the self-examination stage, consolidating these digital bases is the foundation for solidly promoting the dual-carbon work, which can lay the foundation for future carbon verification, evaluation, and sustainable emission reduction. College campuses need to play a leading role in the national dual-carbon strategy. "Accounting and clearing up the carbon emission data of the campus is the most basic work. Only with this foundation can we scientifically plan the campus carbon peak and carbon neutral path. On the basis of accounting, there are still a lot of work to be extended and deepened in the future. For example, to find emission reduction solutions, we need to rely on the joint efforts of all walks of life in the whole society. Some of them can be done by universities themselves, and some can also seek external consultation and technology. services, and collaboratively achieve carbon neutrality on campus. This is the original intention of our development of this platform.”

Tan Hongwei always believes that the green operation of the campus should take the campus operation data as the starting point to build a digital basic platform, so that the problems in the construction and operation of the campus are easier to be discovered, the loopholes are more easily exposed, the problem correspondence is more targeted, and the implementation of energy saving and reduction. The technical effect of platooning can be quantified, and the indicators can be assessed. In the past, it was invested in the construction of a campus energy-saving supervision platform. In the future, it is necessary to integrate the campus carbon emission accounting, open up the channels of these data systems, and strengthen the integration, interaction and sharing of data.

Wenzhou-Kean University is one of the registered users of the college campus carbon emission accounting platform. Vice President Zheng Xiaodong believes that many colleges and universities have only a general concept of "low carbon" and "green", and the carbon emission accounting platform is beneficial to teachers and students. To reduce carbon emissions in daily life, "every bit can be done, and more scientific and effective methods will be adopted in the management of the entire (campus) operation of school properties."

Through campus carbon accounting, the current status of carbon emissions on campus can be judged. In the past, the commonly used evaluation indicators in campus energy conservation work were energy consumption per student, water consumption per student, and energy consumption per unit area of ​​campus buildings (electricity consumption). However, carbon emission evaluation is not completely consistent with energy efficiency evaluation, and needs to consider a longer chain (the principle of full life cycle evaluation) and a wider range. Therefore, based on the campus carbon accounting process, a more complete low-carbon campus evaluation system needs to be established.

Li Deying, vice president of China Building Energy Conservation Association, believes that in the past, college campuses were mostly managed extensively, lacking data on building energy consumption and carbon emissions. It is now necessary to actively promote the process of campus carbon neutralization through the carbon emission accounting platform of colleges and universities, build a solid campus carbon management technology system, stimulate college campus carbon neutrality to strive for excellence, and give play to the pioneering and leading role of colleges and universities in the sustainable development of society.

In reality, there are big differences in the data collection, aggregation and statistics related to campus carbon emission accounting in Chinese colleges and universities. Facing colleges and universities with an imperfect carbon accounting data foundation, Tan Hongwei explained that although the degree of campus-related data collection is uneven, However, energy consumption data such as water consumption and electricity consumption are basically available, which can be simplified first and then complete, first easy and then difficult. Complete carbon accounting data aggregation requires a perfect process, which can be implemented step by step and at different levels. In addition, the platform and the upcoming carbon accounting and evaluation methods (standards) for college campuses will also take into account the above issues for guidance.

Tan Hongwei added: "The campus carbon accounting platform clarifies the scope of carbon accounting and accounting list, standardizes the aggregation and input of data, and provides automatic accounting and automatic report generation and output services. Users using this platform only need to focus on data collection and summary. Yes. Try to collect and summarize data according to the list. The more complete it is, the better, and it is not required to do it in one step. As much as you have, you can calculate as much as you want. Improve it gradually.” (End)