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Presented by Briar Schoon, Interim Sustainability Manager Portland Community College

Calculating & Reducing Supply Chain Em issions at Portland Com m unity College

About PCC

• Largest higher educational institution in the state of Oregon
• PCC has 10 campuses and centers throughout the Portland-

metro area

• Approximately 90,000+ students
• 3205 staff and faculty members
• Collectively, our square footage combined is slightly larger

than the state of Rhode Island.

• Reduce emissions from 2006 levels:

– 10% by 2012; – 40% by 2030; and – 80% by 2050

PCC GHG Targets

GHG Calculator

Good Company's G3C calculator

Supply Chain Emissions

The scale of greenhouse gas emissions from supply chain can be quite large.

Supply Chain Methodology

1) Collect the necessary purchasing data

Supply Chain Methodology

2) Organize the data via the internal accounting codes provided from purchasing.

Supply Chain Methodology

3) Remove the account categories that either represent double- counting (such as electricity and solid waste) or that are not for goods and services such as salaries.

Supply Chain Methodology

4) Group data into 15-20 major categories

Supply Chain Methodology

The EIO-LCA online tool is available for free and assists in converting economic activity through dollars spent into GHG emissions.

The tool and more information about it can be found at the following website: http://www.eiolca.net

5) Utilize the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) method to find the CO2e-intensity for each of those categories.

The EIO-LCA tool

Supply Chain Methodology

When using the EIO-LCA tool, you must adjust for inflation because it is based on 2002 prices

6) Adjust the results for inflation using the U.S. Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Supply Chain Methodology

7) Enter your adjusted emissions intensities into the calculator you are using for your inventory.

• Two questions:

– How to promote sustainable purchases in a complex and diverse organization like PCC? – How to account for sustainable purchases in GHG inventory?

Moving Forward

More specific supply chain GHG inventory

Moving Forward

• Emission intensities

specific to Oregon- consumption patterns

• Developed by David

Allaway with Oregon DEQ

• Three-region

consumption model

• Working with

admins to promote EPP

• Product-specific

Green Office Supplies Purchasing Guide

Moving Forward

• Working with Office Max to highlight green

products & track purchases

Moving Forward

• Plan to use EPA’s

ReCon tool to identify GHG savings from recycled content purchases.

• Sustainability language and criteria in RFPs

and college-wide contracts

– Successfully modeled for the first time in our waste hauling invitation to bid last month – Infused sustainability throughout ITB – About 30% of award criteria

Moving Forward

• Sustainable purchasing with the District

Student Council

– 2nd largest purchaser at PCC – Drafted policy & criteria with students – Plans to develop product & service-specific sustainable purchasing guide – To be implemented next academic year

Moving Forward

• Working with organizations focused on

sustainable procurement

– Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council – West Coast Government Purchasing for Climate Protection Workgroup – Healthy Purchasing Coalition in OR

Moving Forward

• Looking for strategies and solutions to

address:

– Measuring success – Calculating GHG savings associated with sustainable purchases/products

Challenges

Questions?

• Thank you!
• Briar Schoon, Interim Sustainability Manager

Briar.schoon@pcc.edu 971-722-8322