How Universities can be leaders in the new zero carbon society

1. How Universities can play leadership role in helping reduce global warming and building future zero carbon economy Bill St. Arnaud CANARIE Inc – www.canarie.ca [email_address] Unless otherwise noted all material in this slide deck may be reproduced, modified or distributed without prior permission of the author

3. Our Challenge j j 26 tons/person 1 ton/person 2008 2050 ? j 2100 2 tons/person Source: Stern 2008

6. SFU TASC2 Research Building CI major cause of GHG emissions

7. UCSD Greenhouse Gas Emission Measuring Our Footprint

10. Virtualization and De-materialization Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre, “The Future Impact of ICTs on Environmental Sustainability”, August 2004

30. Other sectors (40%) (e.g. manufacturing, coal mining, export transport) Emissions under direct consumer control (35%) Consumer influenced sectors (25%) (e.g. retail, food and drink, wholesale, agriculture, public sector) Heating Private cars Electricity Other transport Consumers control or influence 60 per cent of emissions http://www.cbi.org.uk/pdf/climatereport2007full.pdf

34. BACKGROUND SLIDES

36. Cap and Trade Regulated Markets – Closed System Source: ClimateCheck Company A Company B Total Before Carbon Trading (Baseline year) Company A Company B Total After Carbon Trading (Future year) Company B implements an internal GHG reduction activity and sells permits to Company A, which uses the permits to meet its cap Net Emission Reduction due to Trade

37. Baseline and Credit Voluntary and Regulated Markets – Open System Source: ClimateCheck Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 GHG emission reduction calculated as the difference between the actual emissions from an activity (the GHG project) and the emissions of the projects baseline scenario Project GHG Emissions Baseline GHG Emissions Time