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Motivation
Motivation
The Northwest School completed a greenhouse gas inventory to understand and manage their institutional climate change impacts as part of a recent initiative by the Carbon Task Force. The task force hopes for The Northwest School to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 while minimizing the use of purchased carbon offsets. Learn more about their journey toward carbon neutrality here.
Summary
Summary
During the 2018-2019 School Year The Northwest School emitted 1,234 metric tons of CO2e greenhouse gases. The majority of these emissions, ~96% were associated with student/faculty commuting and air travel. On site emissions from building operations account for ~1.4% of greenhouse gas with the remaining ~2.6% resulting from busing. Under a different accounting approach than applied in the total listed here, Northwest could be considered to have emitted an additional 280 metric tons of CO2e greenhouse gases (see scope 2). Due to data limitations, we have not included emissions from waste production, refrigeration, or food consumption in this inventory.
Emissions by Scope
Emissions by Scope
All direct emissions from the activities of the reporting organization. This includes the operation of company vehicles and the operations of company facilities. At Northwest, this includes the bus fleet and heating.
Energy procurement. Measured using two methods: location-based emissions calculation and market-based emissions calculation.
Emissions from the activities of an organization that originate from sources that they neither own nor control. At Northwest this includes daily commuting, school related trips and international student travel to and from home.
Where possible, we used the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Deviations from the standard and the justification for those choices is available under methods.
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