2012 Symposium

The Power of Partnership

Jorulf Brøvig Silde Project Director Green UiO

University of Oslo Email: j.b.silde@admin.uio.no

Twitter: @grontuio / @JorulfBS

Green UiO – Sustainability in Research, Education and Operation

How we started the journey to become a green university by

mapping it all

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Case Study Author

Jorulf Brøvig Silde

Project Director Green UiO

in charge of the joint environmental

efforts of University of Oslo aimed at strengthening the symmetry between the research, the education and the operation of the university.

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University of Oslo in figures (2011)

• 27 414 Students:

• 2887 PhD-candidates:

• 3327 Scientific staff:

• 1707 Adm. staff:

• 8 faculties

• 3 museums

• 530 000 m2 buildings

• 1.1 bn $ operating budget

• 75th. (global) Shanghai ranking

• 5 Nobel laureates

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Oslo

Norway

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Timeline “exploring the idea of a Green University”

2009: New rector/prorector (link)

Election programme: Green university 2010: UiO Strategy 2020 (link)

Core values: UiO to become a Green university 2010/11: Mapping it all (link)

Green characteristics: Res., Edu., Oper. 2011: Learning from others

What do other green universities do? (link) 2011/12: Stepping up

Setting our long term horizon for Environmental Sustainability (link)

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The Mapping: Green characteristics of UiO

• Research: Amount and examples of research related to environmental sustainability at UiO.

• Education: Share of total programmes and subjects relevant for environmental sustainability

• Operation: Where do we take environment in consideration? And where do we not? How big is our CO2-Footprint*?

• Learning from others: What is the best green university practice globally?

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Green mapping Research related to environmental sustainability

We analysed 4800 papers, all research projects, all funding sources. •14.1 per cent of all papers at UiO related to environment. •491 researchers do research related to environment. •19 % of national projectfunding is related to environment, 33% of EU funding

Reference Group Scholars from all faculties.

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Education and studies

relevant for environmental sustainability

We analysed 3000 courses and all programs. Environmentally-relevant •courses comprise 9% of all the courses offered at UiO. •study programmes comprise 24% of all study programmes offered by UiO, programmes •Programmes categorised as being high on environmental relevance make up 8%. 282 courses are categorised as environmentally relevant, Of these: 168 cources are categorised as high on environmental relevance.

Reference Group Scholars from all faculties.

Green mapping

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Operation, buildings and infrastructure

How green is everyday life and work Green Practice: Report describing where we do already take environmental considerations – and what exactly do we do: Energy, Purchasing, IT, Buildings and infrastructure

CO2-Baseline: Climate gas accounting version 1.0. Extenced scope 3. Link

Energy efficiency 68 reports – one for each building summarising energy efficiendy potential: 8 % energy reduction – 8 mill$. 5 year payback time.

Green mapping

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Best Green University Practice

A study by M.Faghihimani (LINK)

Etablishing a set of 50 indicators

related to environmental sustainability i

4 categories: Research , Education, Governance, Operation.

Measuring commitment among 20 universities.

Top 3: UBC, MIT, Gothenburg U.: 48/50

Green mapping

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Key Outcomes of the green mapping

Main results

• Authoritative baseline established.

• Increased ownership: Different stakeholders involved in the mapping process.

• Mapping of the Non-countable ensures relevance.

• Mapping of ongoing activity enables continuity.

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Of course, mapping is not enough;

We also have some Ongoing action ... Energy - from fossile

fuel to renewables

- 83% reduction fossile fuel on campus for heating (last 10 years)

100% renewable electricity : up form 45% fossile to 0% (guaranteed origin)

Social media - opening doors to new rooms for collaboration and studentinvolvement

Open blog, tweets, Fb, Scribd, Tumblr, Storify,…

Counting the

money Moving

away from focus only on red numbers (costs) to black and green numbers (economic gains and environment). Longer term thinking.

Greening the

ungreen: establishing

travel policy, purchasing policy and green event certification

@grontuio

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Key Questions

Next Steps

• Plan for next 3-5 years.

• Climate action plan and energy projects.

• Organisational consolidation

• Students involvement

• The whole university: Visibility and effects

How to go from mapping to action?

“Heros, pilot projects and spearheads”

vs

“environmental sustainability in all

and everything”