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Lancaster University has declared a climate emergency and announced its aim to become carbon neutral by 2035.
This decision, endorsed by University Council on November 20, follows engagement with staff and students through a series of ‘sustainability conversations’.
The University aims to be carbon net zero for carbon emissions from electricity and heating by 2030 and net zero from all other emissions by 2035.
Lancaster University is the highest producer of renewable energy of all UK universities according to figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency and already has reduced its electricity and heating emissions by 50% since 2005.
The University has already implemented a range of projects which have directly reduced the University’s carbon footprint and driven significant behavioural change amongst students and staff.
Lancaster University’s 2.3MW wind turbine, the first of its kind at a UK university, produces 4,000MWh of electricity per annum, around 15% of University electricity consumption.
The now fully refurbished energy centre has enabled the University to provide low carbon heat and electricity across campus and incorporates a 2MW Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engine, which generates approximately 25% of University electricity, and a 1MW biomass boiler which produces 15% of University heat requirements. Both of these projects have reduced University carbon emissions by over 3,000tCO2e.
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