Duquesne University’s second greenhouse gas emissions inventory, conducted by the Center for Environmental Research and Education in the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, shows a decrease in the University’s carbon footprint, despite a physical growth in campus and an increase in the student body.

The report One Step at a Time: Duquesne’s Second Biennial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory discovered that the University’s carbon footprint dropped to approximately 4.0 metric tons per student in 2008 from 4.6 metric tons per student in 2006.

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2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report

2008 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report

Duquesne is the first university in western Pennsylvania and one of only a few in the state to have completed such an analysis. The University has played a leading role in moving other schools in the region to undertake similar studies and to direct the region as a whole toward environmental stewardship, noted Dr. Stanley Kabala, associate director of CERE and principal investigator of the graduate-level project.

The University’s carbon footprint, which is based upon all gases emitted, is substantially the smallest of all Atlantic 10 Conference schools completing similar surveys in the past two years.