Greenhouse Gas Emissions

At MCUT, we take our commitment to sustainability seriously. We adopted the year 2010 as the base year for greenhouse gas inventory, and since 2022, we have been implementing greenhouse gas inventory checks and verification every November of the following year. The greenhouse gas inventory check and verification for the year 2023 will be completed in 2024 and reported in the sustainability report of 2024. MCUT’s greenhouse gas emissions reached 10,441 tCO2e in 2010 and 8,768.350 tCO2e in 2022 respectively. The verification work, a crucial step in ensuring the accuracy of our data, was handled by a third-party company called TÜV SÜD. Their findings showed that the carbon emissions of MCUT in 2022 were reduced by 16.3% compared with those in the base year. Over the past twelve years, MCUT has continually installed digital electricity meters, set up solar power generation facilities, comprehensively replaced the original lamps with LED lights and the air-conditioning units with variable frequency air-conditioning units, and established an “Energy Monitoring System”. An intelligent information transmission system has been adopted to monitor and manage the energy consumption of the entire university at any time. MCUT continues to implement Greenhouse Gas Inventory work to check the effectiveness of the CO₂ reduction strategy, improve energy-consuming equipment and facilities, and reduce CO₂ emissions. In 2023, due to the improvement of MCUT’s research energy, the laboratory facilities were continually updated, resulting in an increase in the university’s power consumption. The sources of MCUT’s greenhouse gases are primarily energy indirect emissions. In the future, MCUT plans to continually conduct greenhouse gas inventory checks and advance towards the goal of Net Zero emissions.

Energy Consumption and Management