Energy / Climate Change

March 2, 2011

 

Mie University and Nippon Institute of Technology Win Eco-Friendly University Award 2010

Keywords: Climate Change University / Research institute 

JFS/Mie University and Nippon Institute of Technology Win Eco-Friendly University Award 2010
Copyright Eco-league Executive Committee of Campus Climate Challenge


The Executive Committee of Campus Climate Challenge announced on November 4, 2010, the early results of the survey ranking eco-friendly universities in Japan, which were scored for their environmental efforts with regard to climate change. Among the national and private universities, Mie University and Nippon Institute of Technology, respectively, ranked first.

The executive committee consists mostly of university students belonging to university seminars or groups concerned with environmental improvement. In FY 2011, the committee conducted its second survey on 744 Japanese universities, focusing on the following six items: emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and energy use, waste materials, actual efforts against global warming, education programs for students, cooperative and collaborative activities with students, and university's original approaches. The committee allocated points by item, and scored a total of 151 universities (75 national and public universities, and 76 private universities) out of 1,000 points.

The first prize in each category went to the following universities: Nippon Institute of Technology (471 points) in the small university category (under 5,000 students), Mie University (552 points) in the medium category (over 5,000 under 10,000 students), and the University of Tsukuba (483 points) in the large category (over 10,000 students). In the CO2 emissions category, Kanda University of International Studies ranked first for its reduction in CO2 emissions by 20.6 percent. In the field of actual efforts against global warming, Iwate University topped the list, scoring 259 of 280, and in the field of renewable energy installation, Koriyama Women's University and its college were each awarded the first for the installation of systems to generate 2.3 percent (28,344 kilowatt-hours) of its energy needs.

Posted: 2011/03/02 06:00:15 AM

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Reference

Campus Climate Challenge official website
http://ccc.eco-2000.net/eng


 

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