Environmental Impact by University Activities

Nagoya University Environmental Report 2016

Material Balance(Digest)

The figure below shows the environmental burdens resulting from our activities (education, research, medical activities,and others) in 2015.

INPUT
Electricity

City gas
3,631
thousand m3 Universityactivities
Well water616
thousand m3

135,920MWh
Water
259
thousand m3
Paper
262 t

OUTPUT

Message from the President

CO2 emissions
75,889 t-CO2

and research, as well as six Nobel Prize winners from our faculty members in 21st century.

Nagoya university has a 144-year history, and has developed and promoted a wide range ofeducational and research programs which have borne fruitful results of world top class education
When I succeeded the University President, we established NU MIRAI 2020 (Nagoya
University Matsuo Initiatives for Reform, Autonomy and Innovation 2020).The initiatives

Sewage water

Seiichi Matsuo

President of Nagoya University

875 thousand m3

including “Fostering people who contribute to creating a more sustainable society by learningand challenging the world together with people of Asia”, “Creating a world-class university

Municipal waste 2,576 t
1,393 tIndustrial wasteChemicals
150 ttake up many themes of great importance to Nagoya University Environmental Report,campus.”, and “Collaborating with Asia and the wider world to promote gender equality on campus”. We havealready achieved notable accomplishments such as the Asian Satellite Campus, the campus master plan, and thegender equality promotion programs. Above all, our efforts to improve the campus infrastructure and reduce theenvironmental burdens of our campus are especially noteworthy. These programs led us to only one university
certified as the highest rating Platinum Certificate under the Assessment System for Sustainable Campus in

Energy consumption and CO2 emission■ Energy consumption
Operation of newly constructed five buildings and renewalof the super computer has increased electricity use.
While overall energy consumption has increased by 3.5%,energy consumption per facility floor area (specific energyconsumption) decreased by 1.6%, thus showing thebenefits of our energy conservation activities.

Compared to FY2014■ Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent)
3.5％Up（KL）
40,000

Energy use
36,922

36,660Specific energy consumption
37,34038,252

36,958■ CO2 emissions
Despite an increase in energy consumption of 3.5%, theincrease of CO2 emission kept to a mere 0.8% because of
decline of CO2 emissions factor.

(t-CO2)60.00

80,000CO2 emissions

60,00010,000

55.04

54.72

53.55

52.71

2012

2013

2014

2015
(Year)

15,000Electricity use
12,66675,30576,43975,30375,889

0.518

0.516

0.513

0.497

10,00012,659Specific energy consumption
12,90012,87013,592

47.09

47.24

46.59

46.78

5,000

0.600

0.400

54.00

20,000

0.200

52.00

0Compared to FY2014
1.6％Down02011

2012

2013

(10,000m3)

60.00

5,000

Gas use
4,353

50.00

3,000

2014

Specific energy consumption

30.00

2012

2013

2014

2015
(Year)

4,255

7.40

silver prizes. Through this competition, we believe that

Cover art winners

more people in Nagoya University have an opportunity Ms. Azeyanagi (Left) and Mr. Kinoshita (Right)
to know and read Environmental Report.

3,996

9.00
8.00

6.88

7.00

5.87

6.00
5.00

0
2012

2013

2014

Cover art winner
Ms. Suzuki

The prize winning missions are presented
on page 2 and 46 of Environmental Report.
Copies of Environmental Report areavailable at University libraries, public
facilities, and local community centers.
You can also look at Environmental
Report online at the facility managed
homepage.

(KL/10,000m2)

7.41

2,000

2011

art as a gold prize. Two other works were selected as

10.00

4,183

1,000
0paintings, and graphics were submitted. After examining
all the submissions, one work was selected for a cover

Winning cover artwork

2015(Year)

3,631
7.71

first attempt for us, a number of wonderful photos,

Compared to FY2014
9.1％ Down■ City gas use(KL/10,000 m2)

40.00

2011

0.800

40,000

4,000
47.20

(t-CO2/10,000kWh)

56.00

Compared to FY2014
5.6％ Up■ Electricity use(10,000kWh)

Electricity CO2 emission factor

environment. Though the Cover art competition is the54.59

02011

Report and create an opportunity to think about our

Compared to FY2014
0.8％Up■ CO2 emissions

0.473
20,000Cover art competition for Environmental Report 2016
Report 2016 was held to improve the recognition of the(KL/10,000m2)

58.00

through industry-government-academia partnerships and international collaborations.

Cover art competition for Nagoya University Environmental

70,11730,000Japan. We intend to continue working toward our goals through collaborations of faculties and staffs as well as2015(Year)[Gold Prize][Silver Prize][Silver Prize]

Saki Azeyanagi
Graduate School of ScienceYusuke Kinoshita
School of LettersShiori Suzuki
Affiliated Upper Secondary school(Featured on the cover of this Report)(Featured on P7 of this Report)(Featured on the back cover of the Report)

The full version of the Environmental Report can be found at: http://web-honbu.jimu.nagoya-u.ac.jp/fmd/06other/guideline/e_rpt.html (in Japanese)External Evaluation of Environmental Activities

Environmental Education and ResearchPlatinum Certificate under theAssessment System for Sustainable Campus

Nagoya University Selected among
10 World Universities by UN WomenIn February 2016, Nagoya University became the onlyuniversity which won the highest rating “Platinum Certificate”
under the Assessment System for Sustainable Campus
conducted by the Campus Sustainability Network in Japan.
The assessment consists of four areas: management,education & research, environment, and local society.
Nagoya University obtained a score of 80% for environmentarea and close to perfect scores for the other three areas.
The assessment praised the University’s management
system wherein faculty and staffs assess the actual conditions
from a broad perspective and, establish positive cycles ofimprovement through the continuous self-assessment, as
well as many other activities based on this approach.

“HeForShe” is a solidarity movement for gender equality developed by UN Women under the recognition that
men's involvement and cooperation are essential. OnMay, 2015, Nagoya University was selected among ten
world universities by UN Women.
It was the only one university inJapan. UN Women praised Nagoya
University for its many efforts topromote gender equality. Nagoya
University continues to challenge
as one of the international top Children at therunners for gender equality.
University childcare center

Practical course on
environmental civil engineeringfor “better Higashiyama Campus”
The Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Department, School of Engineering is offering a course called“Experimental and analytical training in civil engineering” tostudents in the latter term of their second year. The students arerequired to propose concrete projects for “better HigashiyamaCampus” from four viewpoints: preventing & mitigating
disasters, eco-campus, safe & comfortable movement, andlandscape. At the workshop, the students found their own
innovative and original ideas, and other useful information.

Working out topics in the workshop
Certificate

At the awarding ceremony

Meidaisai is an annual university festival led by Meidaisai
Planning Committee. The committee promotes a varietyof environmental protection activities at Meidaisai, including
sorting and collecting of trashes, using chopsticks madefrom thinned timbers, and holding a secondhand book fair.
The committee hopes Meidaisai to be an opportunity forconsidering environmental protection and taking actions.

Out of trash stations in Meidaisai

Secondhand book fairStudents visited the laboratory of Professor Hiromi Yamazawaof the Department of Energy Engineering and Science
for an interview about his research. Professor Yamazawa
researches behavior of pollutants in the environment, with afocus on global warming and radioactivity.
In the era when human population and industrial activities
were much smaller in scale, the natural environment could
purify pollutants released by human activities. However,the scale of modern population and industrial activities
has triggered global warming, environmental pollution,and other problems. We must tell how large humanactivities are tolerable for the planet. To do that, we shouldhave technologies that canestimate the effects ofgreenhouse gases andradioactivity emitted fromhuman activities on theenvironment.

Professor Yamazawa (center)

HeForShe event in Nagoya University

Environmental Protection Activities by Students
Environmental Protection at Meidaisai

On-campus local survey

Research on Material Transport in
Atmosphere for a Better Future

Social Responsibility and Environmental Communication

Student Environmental Circle“Song of Earth”
Students joining to student environmental circle “Song ofEarth” in Nagoya University think about what they can doby themselves for environment, and act for improvementof the local environment. At the same time, they promote
activities to raise awareness of environmental problems.
Their activities include planting flowers in Higashiyama
campus, holding the market to promote reuse of goods
in boarding houses, and so on.
They expect that theiractivities make everyone inthe campus comfortableand happy.

Revitalizing the region throughthe “Woodism” industry
In November 2015, Professor Chisato Takenaka, Associate
Professor Mariko Yamazaki, and other members of theGraduate School of Bio-agricultural Sciences led a workshop
entitled “Achieving the regional revitalization by a genderequality in the “Woodism” industry: Chubu Region model”.
The “Woodism” industry means the entire industries from
cultivation to consumption on sustainable resource “wood”(forestry, construction industries, etc.). Though we have an
image of having very few women workers in the industry,
there are in fact many women active there. Presentations
by women working in the industry and the relevant government
offices about the fascination of their jobs, balancing homeand work, and their work environments were very impressive
and informative for many of the attendees.

Planting flowers on campus

Boat club members clean up along
Shonai River

Student Circle “Nagoneko” forstray cats on campus

Nagoya University boat club cooperates with boat clubs ofneighboring universities to clean up around the boat slips
along Shonai River once a year. The students are allowed
to use the river for their training, so the clean-up event isalso an expression of gratitude to local residents. They alsocare about cleanness around the river during their training.

“Nagoneko” (Cat circle in Nagoya University) performs avariety of activities for stray cats living on campus, including
spaying and neutering, individual management throughfeeding, and adoption. The circle’s efforts are supported bypeople not only in the university but also local residents.
Their activity was picked up on a local newspaper.

A graduate’s career: protecting the environment
Essam Yassin Mohammed, Ph.D. is a Graduate of the Graduate
School of International Development in Nagoya University
and currently works for issues concerning environmental
protection at the International Institute for Environment andDevelopment (IIED). In his role as an economist, he hasstressed the vital importance of environmental protection
from the economical viewpoint to people around the world.
When I was at Nagoya University, I joined a volunteer
activity to preserve the Hasso Wetland in Inuyama City,
Aichi Prefecture. By the experience, I began to think aboutlack of sufficient investment in protecting environments.
I felt that people did not sufficiently appreciate natural
resources around them, and this gave me the ideaof developing a method to evaluate the economic
value of environments. Showing accurately the valueof environmental resources makes it easier for people
to understand why it is so important to invest forenvironmental protections. Today, more and moregovernments have realized natural resources as theirvaluable assets and importance of invests to protect them.

Scene from the workshop
Essam Yassin Mohammed

Hasso Wetland
Photo by Mr. Susumu Hayashi ofInuyama Institute for Satoyama Sciences.

Group photo after the clean up

Individual management through feeding

A healthy cat at its adopted home