Progress Report - GHG Emissions from Sun Facilities
Friday Jul 17, 2009
I've been spending a lot of time doing greenhouse gas emissions work over the past couple of months. The latest organization-level Carbon Disclosure Project survey (CDP7) was due at the end of May; the Supply Chain Leadership portion of the survey is due at the end of July. Our response to CDP7 will be available on-line shortly.
Finalized inventory estimates for 2008 for the EPA Climate Leaders program were due at the end of June. This was a big year for Sun, because we made the switch from doing estimates of building energy use-related GHGs using spreadsheets to using the GHG tool in OpenEco.org. I've been doing double-entry in both spreadsheet and in OpenEco.org since the latter was launched in September 2007, but this year I was ready to make transition official. In the process, we learned a lot about what it's like to use the site for a relatively large building portfolio over multiple years, and made a number of adjustments to its functionality to improve performance and usability.
If you're a registered member of OpenEco.org, you can browse through Sun's GHG inventory. Note that only the emissions from electricity and natural gas use are calculated by the GHG Tool; CO2e totals for other sources, such as our shuttle fleet, are still calculated using a spreadsheet.
By the way, our 2008 Climate Leaders reported inventory was 4% below the 2007 baseline. Woo hoo! Looks like we're on our way to our reduction goal of 20% by 2015.
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