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Climate Action
Low Carbon Energy Use
CENTRAL LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY
2023
College of Science
Institute for Climate Change and Environmental Managememt
implementation of paperless transaction, paper recycling and banning of single-use plastics
water pipes replaced
and conserved water through high efficiency water fixtures
energy from low carbon sources
metric tons of greenhouse gas avoided from stationary fuels by using Biogas Digester
trees planted in 2022
by students, faculty and staff
kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity produced from renewable energy
Total Energy
Used
Low Carbon
Energy Sources
UNIVERSITY CARBON EMISSIONS
|
2022
The university’s energy usage 15,781 GJ on 2022 with 60% coming from low carbon energy source (9,469 GJ). The university has taken actions to reduce the emission prior to 2021-2029 by shifting a lot of its old equipment to environment-friendly and energy efficient equipment ranging from light bulbs to air conditioner to refrigerator. Additionally, the University have tree planting activity as a clearance for graduating students. Each student will plant a native tree species around the university; it is symbolic yet helpful for the reduction of GHG emission. The researchers in CLSU created a low-cost biogas digester which can replace the LPG tanks. Hopefully, in the future, a lot of biofuels like biodiesel will be created in order to shift from the high emission fuel to low emission fuel in order to lessen both stationary combustion and mobile combustion.
STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING NEUTRALITY
REDUCTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY
OFFSETTING
BIOGAS DIGESTER
We save the equivalent of:
driven by an average gasoline-powered vehicle.
of gasoline consumed.
of diesel consumed
of coal burned
LPG tank for cooking
OFFSETTING
CO AVOIDED
2
We save the equivalent of:
driven by an average gasoline-powered vehicle.
of gasoline consumed.
of diesel consumed
of coal burned
Clean energy
CARBON SEQUESTERED BY TREES
MT of CO2
PLEDGE OF COMMITMENT
The University is sincere in achieving carbon neutrality in order to fight climate change. The University pledges to achieve carbon neutrality in 2029 by making these targets possible. As a renowned higher education and research institution, CLSU will make great efforts to combat the climate change.
CARBON NEUTRALITY
Climate change refers to a statistically significant disparity in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period of time which usually decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcing, or to tenacious anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use (IPCC). Human activity worsen and fasten the effects of climate change.
Greenhouse gases are transparent to definite wavelengths of the sun’s radiant energy, allowing them to enter deep into the atmosphere or all the way into the Earth’s surface. Greenhouse gases and clouds inhibit some of infrared radiation from escaping, trapping the heat near the Earth’s surface where it warms the lower atmosphere. Alteration of this natural barrier of atmospheric gases can elevate or lower the mean global temperature of the Earth (NASA). Greenhouse gas helps our world to regulate the temperature but due to the drastic amount of GHG present in our world, it becomes unbalanced and it results in the birth of climate change.
Climate change mitigation denotes to efforts to cut or avoid emission of greenhouse gases. New technologies and renewable energies, making older equipment more energy efficient, or varying management practices or consumer behavior can mean mitigation (UN). Human activities are the main problem of GHG emission but also the human efforts will be the key to mitigate the emissions.
AWARENESS
Enhancement of the system for Agriculture and
Fisheries Education through the integration of
Green and Remote Sensing Technologies
Towards Food Security, Sustainability, Health
and Safety of the Environment
(SAFE>GRS>FOSHE)
https://projectsafe-clsu.com/
Formulation of the Local Climate Change Action Plan
(LCCAP)
Spearheading the formulation of the
Local Climate Change Action Plan
(LCCAP):
http://iccem.projectsafe-clsu.com/lccap.php