Carbon footprint evaluation and reduction as a climate change mitigation tool - case study of federal university of agriculture abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria
Ologun, O.O., Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria; Wara, S.T., Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria
In this paper efforts were made to create awareness and evaluate carbon footprint for the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) for the period August 2011 to July 2012. The aim of this analysis was to determine the carbon footprint of FUNAAB, not only to give a tangible number with which the University's carbon sustainability level can be compared with other academic Institutions, but also to provide the much-needed baseline against which future mitigation efforts on the university campus can be measured. FUNAAB's carbon footprint for the 2011/2012 session was found to be about 5,935 tons CO2, with transportation, campus energy consumption and farm machineries contributing about 63%, 35% and 2% respectively. Staff and student commuting alone contributed about 55% of all emissions associated with University activities. FUNAAB's per-capita emissions with a total of about 10,256 students for the 2011/2012 session amount to about 0.6 tons CO2 emissions per student.