Environmental Impact by University Activities

Nagoya University Environmental Report 2017

Material Balance(Digest)

The figure below shows the environmental burdens resulting from our activities (education, research, medicalactivities, and others) in 2016.

INPUT
City gas

Electricity

Education and research on the environment

OUTPUT

Field Seminar on Environmental Issues(School of Informatics and Sciences)

CO2 emissions

Universityactivities

13,889MWh

4,075
thousand m3

Water

Well water

Sewage water258
thousand m3

591
thousand m3

Paper

Chemicals

237 t

137 t

Municipal waste 2,284 t
Industrial waste 1,471 t

The School of Informatics and Sciences offers afield-trip coursework, "Field Seminar on Environmental Issues", as part of environmental education.
The students usually learn about environmentallysound use of materials and energy in the global
perspective. At the seminar, they visit and learn
about waste treatment facilities and power plants. It
is a fruitful opportunity for them to think about
environmental issues from the viewpoint of daily life.
（Featured on P15,16 of the Report）

76,766 t-CO2

849
thousand m3

Clean up automobile exhausts!
Catalyst Design Group (Graduate School ofEngineering, Department of Materials Chemistry) is
pursuing researches on automotive catalysts, fuelcells, and biomass conversions for improvement of
the atmospheric environment and energy saving.
This journal introduces the voices form students inthe laboratory about interesting points, difficulties,
and future prospects of their research.（Featuredon P19,20 of the Report）

Energy consumption and CO2 emission■Energy consumption
Energy use in 2016 has increased by 3.2% over theprevious year because of full operation of newly
constructed buildings. It is also considered as one of
the factors that average temperature in Nagoya city
was 0.5°C higher in summer and 1.2°C lower in winterthan the previous year.
■ Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent)（KL）
40,000

Energy use
36,66037,340Compared to FY2015
3.5％UpSpecific energy consumption
36,95838,252■CO2 emission
Despite an increase in energy consumption of 3.2%,
the increase of CO2 emission kept to a mere 1.2%
because of decline of CO2 emissions factor.
* : For more information about J-Credit, please refer to P42 of
the report.

(KL/10,000m2)(t-CO2)60.00

100,000

39,47230,00058.00

20,00056.00

80,00060,000

54.82

54.59

10,000

54.73

53.55

54.00

52.71

0
2013

2014

Electricity use

15,00012,6592016(Year)

12,900Specific energy consumption
12,87013,59275,30576,439

47.09

47.24

46.59

46.78

0.516

0.518

0.513

2012

(10,000m3)

5,000

40.00

2013

2014

30.00
2012

2013

2014

2015

2016
(Year)

0.497

0.600

0.486

3,000

2015

Cover art competition for Environmental Report 2017
Cover art competition for Nagoya University
Environmental Report 2017 was held to improve
the recognition of the Report and create an opportunity to think about our environment. A number ofwonderful photos, paintings, and graphics weresubmitted. After examining all the submissions,
one work was selected for a cover art as a goldprize. Two other works were selected as silver
prizes. Through this competition, we believe that
more people in Nagoya University have an opportunity to know and read Environmental Report.

Winning cover artwork

2016(Year)

Soot from a diesel vehicle. She is studying effective
combustion of soot collected in a ceramic filter.

Cover art winners
Ms. Kawaguchi(Left) and Ms. Suzuki (Right)

Compared to FY2015
12.2％ UPGas use

Specific energy consumption

3,996(KL/10,000m2)

4,075
3,631

7.40

6.88

2,000

9.00
8.00

7.41
6.57
5.87

7.00
6.00
5.00

0
2012

2013

2014

2015

2016
(Year)

Cover art winners
Ms. Sakakibara

The prize winning missions are presented
on page 54 of Environmental Report.
Copies of Environmental Report areavailable at University libraries, publicfacilities, and local community centers.
You can also look at Environmental
Report online at the facility managed
homepage.

10.00
4,255

1,00000.800

0■ City gas use

50.00

75,888

0

4,183

5,000

75,3030.20060.00

48.19

1.000

13,812

76,7664,000
10,000(t-CO2/10,000kWh)

J-Credit transfer amount * （90,578）

20,000(KL/10,000 m2)

13,889

Electricity CO2 emission factor

0.400

Compared to FY2015
4.0％UP

Compared to FY2015
2.2％UP■ Electricity use(10,000kWh)

2015

CO2 emissions

40,000

52.00

2012

Compared to FY2015
1.2％UP■ CO2 emissions

Visit of Mega Solar Taketoyo Power Plant[Gold Prize]
Asami Kawaguchi

Graduate School of Informatics(Featured on the cover of the Report)[Silver Prize]
Yoshie Sakakibara

School of Humanities(Featured on P52 of the Report)[Silver Prize]
Shiori Suzuki

Affiliated Upper Secondary school(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

Articles of Environmental Report 2017

The full version of the Environmental Report can be found at

Environmental education, researches and various activities by students at Nagoya University

http://web-honbu.jimu.nagoya-u.ac.jp/fmd/06other/guideline/e_rpt.html

Environmental Studies at the NU-AffiliatedSecondary School

Treasure Trove of Flood Control Materials:"The Takagi Family Documents"

Environmental education is being carriedout at the Nagoya University AffiliatedSecondary Schools, where it takes
advantage of the integrated lower andupper-level secondary education offered
there. At the lower level, interest in natural
phenomena and social environments
is cultivated among middle school students through practicalgroup research and fieldwork, while at the upper level, highschool students are engaged in full-scale research basedon the broader interests they developed at the lower level.

"The Takagi family documents" heldby the Nagoya University Library
are a collection of documents of theNishi-Takagi family, which was oneof “Hatamoto” -direct retainers of theShogun. They are known to containquite a lot of flood control data for
the Kiso three rivers basin. They are being utilized for researchas primary sources to investigate the natural environment,
history, culture and technology of the basin, cooperating withlocal governments in the basin.

Multi-Generational Communication Space

Woodism-City ProjectThis room is a co-working space
usable with children, students, andother families or multi generations
that was opened at NIC in 2015.
This space presents a new style inlife-work balance.

The Graduate Schools of Agricultural
Sciences and Environmental Studies
have been conducting the “WoodismCity Project” in the university campus
and urban areas of Nagoya city tilizing
locally produced timber, in cooperation
with stakeholders inside and outside
the campus. It also introduces international
movement and future prospects.
(Featured on P23,24 of the Report)(Featured on P29 of the Report)(Featured on P21,22 of the Report)(Featured on P11,12 of the Report)

Students' Environmental Activities

Nfor Motoyama

Achievements of environmental activities by students
in 2016 (Featured on P33 of the Report)

立体駐車場
Parking

The Disaster Mitigation
Research Building

School ofEngineering

NIC
NIC

Aﬃliated Upper and Lower
Secondary Schools

School ofEngineering

School of
Humanities
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Main Building

School ofInformatics

ITbM

School ofEducation

JR Tsurumai Station
Nagoya University
Hospital Exit

Noyori
Conference Hall

IB電子情報館

School of
Economics

Outpatient
外来棟
Building

School ofScience

Research Institutes
Toyoda
豊田講堂
Auditorium

Green Belt

NU Library

University Hospital

Noyori Materials
Science Laboratory

Engineering andScience Building

博物館
NUMuseum

Executive Committee of
MEIDAI-SAI (University Festival) by Students

School of Medicine

School of
Agricultural Sciences

Akasaki
InstituteKagamigaike
PondMedical Science
Research Building 2

Collected waste cooking oil
used at MEIDAI-SAI

CentralConsultation
Buildingfor Subway /JR Tsurumai station

回収

販売

販売
Reuse of goods 回収
Planting flowers Garbage picking Environmental workshop
for student daily life
at MEIDAI-SAIon campus
Handicraft toys from wastes

Tsurumai Campus
for Subway
Sunada-bashi station

売

販

N

Tennis Courts

Flower収bed：454㎡
回 pots：60 pots Garbage：2 bags Participant
FlowerHandling items：50 pairs ofLess than：234 items
parent and childSeeding：50㎗ seeds
thought!
Visitors
Toy-making
Planting：1,200
plants：204 peopleusing plastic bottles

School ofLaw
School ofHealth Sciences

Athletic Field

販売
Collection：6,000books
Sale： 3,849 books
To the new owner

Recycled toanimal feed and ink
回収
販売
回収
販売
回収
販売 “Song of Earth”
Student Environmental
CircleWard Building
病棟

立体駐車場
Parking（建設中）

Sold used books donated bycampus and the local residents

Waste oil：170ℓ

立体駐車場
Parkingfor Subway Nagoya
Dome-mae Yada station

University
Headquarters

Tennis Courts

NU Museum
Botanical Garden

Student Circle “NAGONEKO” for Stray Cats on Campusfor Yagoto

Higashiyama Campus

Baseball Field

TennisCourtsGroundDaiko Campus

Product Planning for "Meidai Gelato",
Utilizing J-Credits
A class where students themselves
devised and then presented a sales
promotion plan for environmentallyfriendly products "Meidai Gelato" isintroduced, which was carried out
in cooperation with a private sector
as part of the Liberal Arts andSciences Course "Industrial Societyand Companies".

QR code is here！

Future of Asia Created by Women LeadersThis program is a fusion-type
program that fosters womens
leaders who can solve problems
from the viewpoint of science withthe keywords of "food, health,environment, social systems, andeducation".

(Featured on P9,10 of the Report)(Featured on P13,14 of the Report)

Treatment of stomatitis: 2 cats

Adoption : 8 cats

Passed away : 3 cats

Temporary keeping : 1 cat

Efforts of the Education and Research Center
for Sustainable Co-Development
The center is providing a support
for reforestation activities which
Brother Industries, Ltd. began in2008 at former ski resort in Gujo
City, Gifu Prefecture, such as byconducting surveys and offering
advice academically, with the goalof realizing a more diverse ecosystem.
(Featured on P25,26 of the Report)
We would like to get your feedback.

Spayed and neutered: 2 cats

Missing : 2 cats

A Graduate’s Career
Kumiko Sawabe graduated from theGraduate School of Environmental
Studies. She is now working at Lake
Biwa Museum as a curator. In thearticle, she talks about her research
while a university student, which
was a trigger to aim to become acurator, and her work making useof her research results.

Nagoya University Facilities Control Department(Featured on P32 of the Report)

E-mail：sis-kan@adm.nagoya-u.ac.jp