This document discusses using university campuses as living laboratories for developing greener technologies and practices. It notes that rising carbon emissions are causing climate change, and regulations will require universities to report and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The document proposes that the University of California San Diego establish a "green campus testbed" to pilot and demonstrate sustainable energy technologies, buildings, and transportation systems in order to reduce the university's carbon footprint and serve as a model for other universities.
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Campuses as Living Laboratories for a Greener Future
1. Campuses as Living Laboratories
for a Greener Future
Jerry Sheehan, Chief of Staff
California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology (Calit2)
July 20th, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
2. Topics to Be Discussed
I. The Warming World
II. Carbon Regulations and Universities
III. The UCSD Green Campus Testbed
Thursday, July 22, 2010
3. Topic
The Warming World
Thursday, July 22, 2010
4. CO2 Rises Suddenly Since Industrial Era
Source: David JC MacKay, 388 PPM in
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009) 2010
Medieval Little
Warm Period Ice Age
Thursday, July 22, 2010
5. Global Average Temperature over Last 160 Years
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
6. Climate Models Match Past Temperature Variations
Combining Natural and Anthropogenic Effects
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/summary.htm
Thursday, July 22, 2010
7. Atmospheric CO2 Levels
Last 800,00 Years and 21st Century
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: US Global Change Research Program Report, 2009
Thursday, July 22, 2010
8. Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: EPA Analysis of American Power Act, June 14, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
9. Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: EPA Analysis of American Power Act, June 14, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
10. CO2 Emissions Persist for Millennium
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: PNAS, February 10, 2009,Vol 206
Thursday, July 22, 2010
11. Planet Already Committed to Dangerous Warming
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009) Planet Has Only
Realized 1/3 of the
Committed Warming
Future Emissions Move
Peak to the Right
SOURCE: V. Ramanthan and Y. Feng, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, PNAS, September 2008
Thursday, July 22, 2010
12. SOURCE: Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, National Research Council,
July 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
14. What Would it Take to Limit CO2 to 450PPM
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
Limiting GHG concentrations to 450 ppm CO2-equivalent is expected to limit
temperature rises to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. This would be
extremely challenging to achieve, requiring an explosive pace of industrial
transformation going beyond even the aggressive developments outlined in
the Blueprints scenario.
It would require global GHG emissions to peak before 2015, a zero-emission
power sector by 2050 and a near zero-emission transport sector in the same time
period…
SOURCE: Shell Oil, Energy Forecast, 2009
Thursday, July 22, 2010
15. Reducing Emissions 50% by 2050
Requires Radical Change
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, AAAS Talk, January 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
16. The Challenge
“The Biggest Single Peacetime Project Humankind
Have Ever Undertaken”
Thursday, July 22, 2010
17. Thinking About the Future is Hard
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
18. Topic
Climate Regulation and Universities
Thursday, July 22, 2010
19. US EPA Mandatory Reporting of GHG
SOURCE: US Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ghgrulemaking.html
Thursday, July 22, 2010
20. US EPA Mandatory Reporting of GHG
Institution Gross Emissions US EPA GHG Rule Requires
Scope 1 & 2 (CO2e) Year Reporting in 2011?
University of Illinois 491,258 2008
YES!
University of Louisville 52,2709 2008
YES!
Syracuse University 80,498 2007
YES!
University of Tennessee 234,000 2008
YES!
Penn State University 309, 117 2008
YES!
University of California San Diego 192,862 2008
YES!
SOURCE: American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, http://acupcc.aashe.org/
Thursday, July 22, 2010
21. American Power Act
SOURCE: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/05/12/kerry-lieberman/
Thursday, July 22, 2010
22. How a Bill Becomes a Law
SOURCE: Mike Wirth and Dr. Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Queens University of Charlotte, SunLight Labs Award Winner
Thursday, July 22, 2010
23. When This
SOURCE: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/horizon-oil-spill.html
Thursday, July 22, 2010
24. Leading to This
SOURCE: National Geographic, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
25. And These
Obama Oval Office Gulf Coast Address June 15, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
26. Only Get You This..
SOURCE: CNN, June 15, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
27. Individual
American CO2 Emissions
20 Tons 14 Tons
=1 Ton CO2 =AB 32 Required Decrease
Thursday, July 22, 2010
28. Subnational GHG Goals in the U.S.
STATES 2009
•72% Climate Action Plans
•42% GHG Reduction Targets
•66% Cap & Trade
SOURCE: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Climate101-State Actions, January 2009
Thursday, July 22, 2010
29. California and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Executive Order S-3-05 Green
House Gas targets.
• 2010 GHG emissions set to 2000 levels.
• 2020 GHG emissions set to 1990 levels.
• 2050 GHG emissions set to 80% of 1990
levels.
• AB 32 (Signed Into Law 2006)
• Identify statewide GHG emissions for 1990 to
serve as emissions limit to be achieved by 2020.
• 427 million metric tons of CO2e goal,
roughly 30% reduction.
• Mandatory reporting and verification of GHG
emissions by major emitters on or before Jan 1,
2008.
• If you emit over 25,000 metric tons of
CO2e reporting is required.
• Identify and adopt regulations for discrete early
actions enforceable by or before January 2010.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
30. California and Renewable Energy
• California State law currently requires 20% of
power to be renewable by 2010.
• California is likely to only achieve about ½ of this by
the deadline.
• Executive Order S-14-08 [October 2008] set a
goal of 33% renewable in the portfolio .
• Executive Order S-21-09 [September 2009]
directs California Air Resources Board to adopt
regulations to support 33% renewable by 2020.
• Regulations to be in place and adopted by stakeholder by
July 2010.
• More strict then any other state but Hawaii which has a
40% requirement by 4030.
• Including hydro-power by 2020, California expects to
exceed this and hit 45% renewables.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
31. GHG Regulation in British Columbia
• Bill 44-2007 (Greenhouse Gas
Reductions Target Act) became
law in 2008
• Act Establishes GHG Targets
• 2020 33% less than 2007
• 2050 80% less then 2007
• Public Sector Organizations
CARBON NEUTRAL by 2010.
• If not neutral, must buy oversets at cost of $24/Ton.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
32. University of British Columbia and Carbon Costs
Greenhouse Gas Liability 2010-2012
2010 2011 2012
Carbon Offset $1,602,750 $1,602,750 $1,602,750
Carbon Tax $1,179,940 $1,474,925 $1,769,910
Total $2,782,690 $3,077,675 $3,372,660
SOURCE: UBC Sustainability Office, August 2009
Thursday, July 22, 2010
34. The ICT Challenge and Opportunity
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
35. Breakdown of ICT’s GHG Emissions by Area
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
6%
Growth
Rate
SOURCE: SMART2020 Report, 2008
Thursday, July 22, 2010
36. Clouds May Not Have Silver Linings
Source: David JC MacKay,
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)
SOURCE: GreenPeace, MakeIT Green, March 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
37. PREZITATION
For Campus Lab Details See Interactive Prezi
https://prezi.com/mt2zmpyvljz0/acuta-green/
Thursday, July 22, 2010