Goal: Become Greenhouse Gas Neutral

Eliminate or absorb all carbon-based emissions on campus from fossil fuel combustion and decomposing vegetable and waste from campus activities.

Why we're working towards it:

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air contaminants, as well as costs.
• Increase energy efficiency and add vegetation to sequester carbon.

Steps we're taking:

• A comprehensive energy management program at Burnaby campus reduced total energy consumption by 8% since 2001.
• Innovative initiatives across BCIT help lessen emissions: at GNWC (green roof research, campus design), Aerospace campus, Downtown campus, and Burnaby campus (Solar Canopy, AFRESH home).
• Student and staff travel accounts for 36% (28% and 8%) of BCIT's ecological footprint - transportation initiatives can have a huge impact.

Focuses: Manage and assess transportation, energy, and materials demand and utilize alternative fuels, renewable, and “green” energy; preserve habitat and species; optimize space use, adapt and reuse existing buildings and structures, and design green buildings and green roofs on a pedestrian-oriented campus; reduce, manage, and convert waste, and adapt purchasing practices.