Executive Summary The objective of this report is to assess the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory for the Pittsburgh Campus of University of Pittsburgh (UPitt). The report presents a GHG emissions inventory from direct or indirect activities of UPitt. We anticipate that the report will serve as a guideline for any committee or group aiming to reduce the emissions of UPitt in the future. Understanding current GHG levels is a necessary step towards developing policies and strategies to lower GHGs. For this benchmark study, fiscal year 2008 was chosen as the temporal boundary in order to be able to observe the impact of switching to the new Carrillo St. steam production plant that has ultra‐low NOx control technology, the lowest to be used by any higher educational institute in the U.S. [1]. A vast majority of emissions were from purchased electricity and steam. These two categories are responsible for 71% of total emissions. Directly financed air travel follows as the next category having the highest percentage of GHG emissions. Global warming contribution of each category is given as a percent of total emissions in Figure 1.
Wastewater 1%
Paper 1%
Directly Financed Air Travel 9% Solid Waste 2%
Scope 2 T&D Losses 6% Other On‐Campus Stadonary 3%
Student Commudng 2%
Faculty / Staff Commudng 5% Purchased Electricity 51%
Purchased Steam / Chilled Water 20%
Figure 1. Detailed distribution of Greenhouse Gas Emission Results
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