Calculo de la Huella de Carbono de la Universidad Santo Tomás 2018

Abstract

This document lists the activities and results developed on the internship “Calculation of the carbon footprint of the University Santo Tomás during the year 2018”, for which a report was made about the greenhouse gas emissions that were generated from of the daily activities of the Santo Tomás University carried out in a period of one year (2017 - 2018), said activities associated with the burning of fuels, the use of air conditioning equipment, the acquisition of extinguishers, the use of fertilizers, the energy consumption, corporate flights for the fulfillment of academic and administrative activities, paper consumption, the generation or disposal of these and in the form of activity against the restraint of emission generation, the generation of recycling material.

The emissions were quantified in terms of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, determining that the carbon footprint generated by the USTA in that year was 2555.6 Ton CO2 eq, which were divided into three emission sources, Direct Emissions (576.69 Ton CO2 eq), indirect energy consumption emissions (814.24 Ton CO2 eq) and Other indirect emissions (1164.67 Ton CO2 eq), found that with this quantification the critical emission sources belong to corporate flights and energy consumption from offices, laboratories , classrooms and cafeterias in each of the venues. On the other hand, it is necessary that the headquarters that emits the largest carbon footprint is the Bogotá headquarters, since since it is central headquarters it is from it and towards it that a greater proportion of corporate flights are made; The venues that also have a high carbon footprint are Villavicencio due to demand for flights and the burning of ACPM, and finally Bucaramanga, in turn, due to energy consumption and air conditioning.

Due to this consumption at headquarters, the results of the internship propose a list of good savings practices and efficient use of the energy sources demanded, to the decrease in the number of flights, savings in energy consumption, good practices of office, control in the generation of solid waste, good information management, among others.