UCF puts best carbon footprint forward
Friday, 24 April 2009
(0)UCF and the University of Exeter, with whom it shares and jointly manages Tremough, have joined the Carbon Trust's prestigious Higher Education Carbon Management (HECM) Programme.
The HECM programme has been designed to assist Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in realising carbon emissions savings, through an understanding of the ideals and benefits of carbon reduction.
The programme aims to reduce carbon dioxide and the impacts of climate change; respond to government pressure to reduce emissions; create a positive ‘green' image; continue energy conservation work that has already started; reduce energy costs; identify further savings and allow UCF and the University of Exeter to lead by example in the Higher Education sector.
Currently in its fifth phase, the HECM programme has successfully helped 84 institutions identify savings of over 264,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, more than 4,000 tonnes of CO2 per institution.
The HECM is a ten month programme, resulting in a five-year Carbon Management Plan, with specific carbon emission reduction targets and a detailed delivery action plan.
For further information on the Carbon Management Programme, and to discuss any potential carbon saving opportunities, contact Laura Skinner, HECM Project Leader by emailing laura.skinner@tremoughservices.com
For further information about University College Falmouth, visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 211077.
The £100 million Tremough Campus is a Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative of which the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth are two of the founding partners. It is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.
Set in 70 acres of countryside, but close to the waterside towns of Penryn and Falmouth, the campus offers a lively student community. The University of Exeter now offers degrees in Biology, Modern Celtic and Cornish Studies, English, Geology, Geography, History, Law, Mining Engineering, Politics and Renewable Energy on the Tremough Campus, which has expanded rapidly as part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative.
UCF is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.
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