J’pura University to become the first carbon neutral university in South Asia
View(s):A project to make the University Of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) the first carbon neutral university in South Asia is underway. USJ’s Centre for Sustainability, under its Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, is currently leading the way through its “USJ Carbon Zero” project to achieve the objective, a university official said.
Accordingly, the university will voluntarily disclose its greenhouse gas emissions starting from 2019, following the ISO 14064-1:2019 standard and will face the third-party ISO 14064-1 audit on its GHG emission reporting on November 22 and 23 of this year.
The CFS has recently introduced the new CarbonCal web-based portal to systematically report the GHG emissions from each department or division of the university.
A “Green Team” comprising of more than 120 academic and non-academic staff members was formed and trained to report the GHG emissions on the CarbonCal web-based portal. The Centre for Sustainability expects the fullest support of the campus community to achieve this remarkable feat, the official said.