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Promotive activities toward to reach the SDGs by YOKOKOKU
Purpose of reaching the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to ensure to leave no one behind while end poverty,
fight against inequality and tackle climate change.
We conduct activities toward to reach the SDGs and introduce some promotive activities to accomplish the SDGs in thispage.

●The University Impact Ranking 2020 — Yokohama National
University was ranked #2 in SDG6 〈Clean Water and Sanitation〉
among Japanese universities, 14th （tied） in Japan’s overall ranking ◆ Hult Prize OnCampus
We were ranked 14thRank
ItemCompetition(tied) within Japan inThe Impact Rankings
2020 and other ourdomestic ranking is asright table.

24 tied
6SDG6 : CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

SDG11 : SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIESSDG15 : LIFE ON LAND◆Playing SDGs
Card Game◆Being Registered With
Kanagawa SDGs Partner“Playing SDGs card game and career
vision” workshop was hold as Liberalarts education. Participants learned theway of solution forsocial issues
and found that
we areconnectingwith the world.

We received an assessment fromKanagawa Prefectural Government aboutSDGs actions toward practical education
and research for Kanagawa and Yokohama.
And we are registeredwith Kanagawa
SDGs partner.

Student-led initiatives for SDGs “HultPrize On Campus” was hold in 2019. Thisyear’s theme was“ClimateChange” andstudents gavea presentation
about various
business plans.
SDGs icon are attached at upper
right of article which is related tothe SDGs in environment
report2020 (digest version).

◆ Eco Campus Contribution Policy URL：

http://shisetsu.ynu.ac.jp/gakugai/shisetsu/3shise_mane/sisin/hongaku_sisin/eco_campus/eco_campus_sisin.pdf◆ Operating Procedure for action plan based on Eco Campus Contribution Policy：

We set up operating procedure that indicate basic approaches of action plan based on Eco Campus Contribution Policy.
URL : http://shisetsu.ynu.ac.jp/gakugai/shisetsu/3shise_mane/sisin/hongaku_sisin/eco_campus/eco_campus_zissiyoukou.pdf

Tokiwadai Campus greenery contribute to the campus and surrounding area
Tokiwadai Campus is known for its abundant greenery. After integration andrelocation in the 1970’s, land development was limited to a minimum level, and a plan
was put into practice in which as many trees were left as possible and new ones wereplanted. Seedlings were planted under the principle of “native forests by native trees,”
and along with the trees that existed before the relocation, have given shape to theforests of today.
Temperature Regulation
Temperatures of Tokiwadai campus
is stabler than temperatures aroundthe campus.
Especiallythe utmosttemperatureof summer
in thiscampus iscooler thanTemperature distribution
the around. map in our campus

Carbon Dioxide Fixing

Disaster Prevention

effect of carbon dioxide fixation activity become be highly
effective condition in highly-density
environmental conservation forests
in our campus, because it seems thatclose planting promotes vegetiveand natural competition.

Our campus isformed line forprevention offire spreading
by a broadleaf
evergreen. Andthe trees have apart in role of
Figure of fire prevention
evacuation area. performance of our campus

Rare Habitat
Rare animals in our campus havesurvived before our campus was build because of spacious
greenery area like heavily wooded area

Environmental Communication
We introduce “Extension” and “Organization for Regional Collaboration in Research and Education ‐ Next Urban
Lab ” from topics of Environmental Communication !
●Extension●Organization for Regional Collaboration in
ResearchandEducation ‐Next Urban LabWe give extension to open our achievement ofeducation and research and to contribute to cultural
progress and local society. We gave 27
kind of extension and total participants
were 2,360 in 2019. Some of thoseextensions were environment-relatedlecture.
extension

Organization for Regional Collaboration in Research and Education has
launched project-type system for high education and research, andexperimental activities “Next Urban Lab” since 2017. 24 projects wereconducted in 2019, for example, “Sightseeing in Kanagawa andEnvironmental Urban development”, “YOKOHAMA Marin Environment andFuture City Lab” which were environmental-related activities and so on.

Environment‐related Research●We received the 29th Grand Prize for Global Environment Award !
Prediction of the Number of Damaged Buildings by Natural Disasters in Real Time
Hironori Fudeyasu, Professor, Faculty of Education
Yokohama National University, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co.,Ltd inMS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc and Aon Group Japan Ltd. have launched theworld’s first website “cmap.dev”, devoted to providing forecasts of the number of buildings
damaged by municipality on a real-time basis in the event of a natural disaster since 2019.
We received the 29th Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award in terms of potential
to contribute to quick rescue, support activities and disaster defense.
◆Real time damage prediction : “cmap.dev” URL：https://cmap.dev

Damage prediction by “cmap.dev” when Typhoon
No.19 was passing through Japan on Oct. 12th, 2019

Water Resource●We effectively use water resource of our campus.
We use both city water and well-water. We haveintroduced well water purification equipment andhave used well-water as not only toilet washingwater but also clean water since August in 2014.
We purify experimental drainage and purified wellwater by effluent purification center for toilet
washing water.

■Water Resource Circulation at Tokiwadai Campus

City water ①

from Yokohama
City Water
Works Bureau

Cleanwatertank

Domestic waste water

Clean water④

Experimental drainage

Purified well-water ③

Effluent
purification
centerRecycle
Well-water purification Recycledfacilities
wastewaterToilet washing water

Well-water②

Black water※Recycle

Black water※※ Black water is released into public sewer

We introduce titles which are very related to the SDGs from Environmental Report 2020.
Environmental Communication
・Environmental Communication with the Community【Promotive Activities toward to Reach the SDGs】

Environment‐Related Activities
・Beautification Day for the Education andResearch Environment (University-Wide Cleanup)

・Environmental Activities
at Affiliated School・Environmental Activities at the YNU Co-op

・Environment-Related Other Activities

System for Environment‐Related Regulation
・System about Environment-Related Regulation

Environment‐related Education● Environment‐related subject
We introduce the number of environment-related subjects that were offered in our college and graduate school in 2019.

CollegeGraduate School
115■Liberal Arts Education■Graduate School of Education（Master）■Graduate School of Engineering Science（Master and Doctor）

23■Liberal Arts Education

34■College of Education/College of Education and Human Science

4■College of Economics

2■College of Business Administration

3■International Graduate School of Social Sciences （Master and Doctor）

7■College of Engineering Science37■Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences（Master and Doctor）

69■College of Urban Science63■Graduate School of Urban Innovation（Master and Doctor）

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Environment‐related Activities● Energy conservation of building and pro‐environmental measures
We take energy conservation of building and pro-environmental measures in sequence.

To use sunlight and natural wind.

To employ energy-saving equipment■ Solar power generation facilities wereinstalled in five affiliated schools in1998.
The total amount of power produced bySolar power generation facilities wereabout 20 thousand kwh and it reduced
CO2 emission about 9.7 tons in 2019.

■Installing high efficiency lightning
equipment and high efficiency air
conditioning equipment■Controlling electrical usage bycontroller system of air conditioner.
■Condition of cooling and heating by“Senshingu” which sense people.

Countermeasures against
heat island■Planting trees on the roof of a Central
Library and walls of Dept.
Architecture building.

Reduction of heat load
■Installing exterior equipment tobuilding to insulate.
■Controlling regulation ofventilation by measuring CO2 level.

Image of “Senshingu”

Material Balance
The following tables show the environmental load through consumption and emissions at 4 main campuses.

OUTPUTINPUTEnergy and other usage total amounts of 4 campus
Electricity （kWh ）City Gas （Nm3）

Kerosene （L）

15,799,717

502,9414,444

Fuel oil （m3）Gasoline （L）
239

Tap Water （m3）48,310Light Oil （L）

Carbon dioxide emissions（t CO2）

8,543

Total discharged water（ m3 ）

116,964

Inorganic waste fluid

（Ｌ）

6,913

Organic waste fluid（Ｌ）

14,809General waste

（ｔ）

136

2,763

410

Industrial waste

（ｔ）

468

Well Water （m3）

Copy paper （t）

Recycled plastic（ｔ）

1569,497

68.3

Recycled cans/plastic bottles

（ｔ）

35

The amount of used paper, were recycled

（ｔ）

203

Usage amounts at Tokiwadai recycled waste water ：25,986 m3

Recycled

Environmental Report 2020 (digest version) was made extracts from Environmental Report 2020.
You can view web pages of Environmental Report 2020 to access address of a link below.
http://shisetsu.ynu.ac.jp/gakugai/shisetsu/4kan_mane/ecocampus/ecocampus.html

Issued September 2020
Editor/issuer: Yokohama National University Planning Division, Facilities Department