- Rising cost of college education and student debt
- Competition for talented faculty
- Need to diversify faculty and staff
- Need to improve campus culture and inclusion
- Need to improve responsiveness to bias incidents
- Need to increase the supply of affordable housing for faculty and staff
- Impacts of climate change on campus operations
- Need to mitigate campus carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality
- Need to find creative financing solutions for sustainability initiatives
Colgate University
Greenhouse gas emissions & sustainability report data
Figures are as stated in the company's own report and may use different boundaries, units or methods (for example market-based vs location-based Scope 2), so compare with care.
📈 Emissions by Report Period
| Report period | Headline emissions figure reported |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 9.5K MTeCO2/year |
| 2009-2010 | 17.4K tCO2e/year (2009); 14505 tCO2e/year (2010) |
Each row is the headline figure extracted from a different report; scope coverage and methodology can change between years.
✅ Reported Environmental Achievements
- Reduced net campus carbon footprint by 53%
- Reduced scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 10%
- Reduced energy consumption in central heating plant by 2%
- Reduced electricity consumption by 5%
- Reduced water consumption by 20%
- Reduced landfill waste by 8%
- Reduced campus-wide paper consumption by 45%
🎯 Climate & Sustainability Targets
🔜 Short-term
- Reduce landfill waste by an additional 100 tons by 2019
- Reduce water consumption by an additional 10 million gallons by July 1, 2019
- Complete a comprehensive update of Colgate’s Forest and Open Lands Stewardship Plan by July 1, 2018
- Complete a full re-measurement of all sample plots identified in our 2013 Forest Carbon Inventory & Projections report by July 1, 2018
- Complete a full assessment of local, community-based, and third-party certified food purchases by July 1, 2017
📅 Medium-term
- Achieve zero-waste campus by 2025
🔭 Long-term
- Carbon neutrality by 2019
🌱 ESG Focus Areas
Diversity, Equity, and InclusionSustainability