The apartments at the following addresses are considered de minimus (less than 5 percent of the university’s emissions) and excluded from the inventory: 1 Irving Place and 23rd Street Apartments. Fugitive emissions—releases of HFCs from refrigeration and air conditioning equipment—are also considered
to be de minimis by The New School and have not been included in the carbon inventory data. Furthermore, the two-car fleet owned by the university is also excluded from the inventory.

1) Buildings - As a participant in the PlaNYC University Challenge, The New School used a calculator with heating oil, steam, gas, and electricity carbon emissions coefficients provided by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The coefficients have been updated every year and are also used to determine the city’s carbon footprint.

2) Air Travel - Air Travel emissions were calculated using the emissions tracking service of The New School's air travel provider, Sabre Airline Solutions.

3)Commuting - Commuting was assumed to be approximately 1% of the university's total emissions.


Carbon emissions from air travel paid for by or through the
institution were calculated using the university’s
air travel provider Sabre Holdings’ carbon emissions
calculations, which follows the guidelines
and methodology set out by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

The New York City carbon coefficients, published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Mandatory GHG Reporting Program, are included in this tool. The University Challenge reporting tool reflects all updates to coefficients the city issued based on revised EPA fuel coefficient data.

The coefficients for air travel emissions were derived from those used by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Commuting was assumed to be approximately 1% of the university's total emissions.

The Office for Sustainability, Facilities Management, collected utilities bills from Accounts Payable and stored the data in a custom tool. This data was then inputted into the tool provided by the Mayor's Office.

Air Travel emissions were calculated using the emissions tracking service of The New School's air travel provider, Sabre Airline Solutions. As the university began using this service in FY10, the Office for Sustainability used the MTCE associated with air travel in FY10 for all years back to FY06 in the carbon inventory. This way the travel that did occur those years is somewhat accounted for (rather than excluded), and The New School is not assuming any reductions have occurred.

Commuting was assumed to be approximately 1% of the university's total emissions.

The apartments at the following addresses are considered de minimus (less than 5 percent of the university’s emissions) and excluded from the inventory: 1 Irving Place and 23rd Street Apartments. The university does not operate either of these properties. Fugitive emissions—releases of HFCs from refrigeration and air conditioning equipment—are also considered to be de minimis by The New School and have not been included in the carbon inventory data. Furthermore, the two-car fleet owned by the university is also excluded from the inventory.

In some cases, historic utility data was incomplete. Rather than indicated zero consumption for a period of time, which would grossly misrepresent our use of energy in those buildings, the Office for Sustainability estimated consumption. Missing values for electricity, natural gas, and steam in a few buildings were imputed by regressing the linear trend for subsequent years on the missing data points or they were imputed by series mean.

As a tenant in many spaces, the university does not always directly pay for all utilities or is not held financially responsible for any utilities at all (rent inclusion). When reporting only the consumption of a single directly-paid utility such as electricity the Mayor’s Office for Long Term Planning and Sustainability advises University Challenge institutions to take 50 percent of the gross square footage of these leased spaces to better represent the energy intensity of that space. Otherwise, the data would be skewed as it would appear to be an all-electric (or all-natural gas) building or space when other fuel sources are being utilized -- but just not paid for directly by the university.

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The New School purchased Green-e certified national wind RECs for FY09 from Constellation New Energy, the university's electricity supplier. The RECs equaled 13,266,000kWh, which reflected 100 percent of the university's electricity usage. However, the university will not take credit for these RECs in its inventory as they do not offset our direct emissions.

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The university occupied fewer gross sqaure feet in FY09. And since 2005, New York City’s electricity coefficient has dropped by 25.7 percent and its steam coefficient has dropped 13.6 percent. These changes are the product of power plant re-powerings in New York City and throughout the state, improved generation efficiency, fuel switching to cleaner fuels, and other factors. This “cleaning” of the City’s electrical and steam coefficients benefits University Challenge participants by moving them closer to their 30 percent reduction goals.

In May 2010, the new Assistant Director for Sustainability & Energy Management reviewed all the historic carbon inventory data previously gathered and reported by the university. After months of scrutinizing the data, revisions were made and sources of emissions added. All GHG Reports for each year have been resubmitted to ACUPCC as of January 2011.