The Belfast university is aiming to cut its carbon output well ahead of a wider target set for NI.
Queen's University says it has cut its emissions by 21% in the past 13 yearsQueen's University Belfast has set itself a target of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2040.The Net Zero Plan is the successor to the Carbon Management Plan, published by the university in 2010.The university has admitted most of the "low-hanging fruit" in terms of straightforward emission reductions has already been harvested.
"So how are our staff and students travelling to the university; how are our staff travelling while on business; what are we buying; and what is the carbon associated with those products? It's trying to drive that down.Net zero is when the amount of greenhouse gases, like carbon and methane, released into the atmosphere is offset by the steps taken to remove those emissions from the air.
"Some of the harder stuff entails active partnerships with other key players in Belfast - and of course that's not as easy as it should be today because the politics of Northern Ireland are pretty vexatious. The Net Zero Plan plan has taken the university's 2018-19 emissions - 105,430 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent - as a baseline because of the disruption Covid-19 has caused in recent years.
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