Inventory of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Removals Authors: Maja Bandjur Milan Kuželka Date of last update: 02/10/2013 AMRES GHG inventory 2013 Page 1 of 15 Document History Document The source of the document will be found in the Environmental/Audit folder. Location Revision Date of next revision: History Revision Previous revision Summary of Changes Changes date date marked 0.1 26th First draft September2013 0.2 30th September 0.3 02h October Approvals This document requires the following approvals. Signed approval forms are filed in the project files. Name Signature Title Date of Version Issue Distribution This document has been distributed to: Name Title Date of Version Issue Related Documents Document Name Filename Version Date Green GEANT Plan ISO 14064-1 2006 ISO 14064-2 2006 ISO 14064-3 2006 AMRES GHG inventory 2013 Page 2 of 15 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 5 1.1 BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................. 5 1.2 SCOPE........................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 AMRES PURPOSE AND PROFILE ................................................................................... 5 2 INVENTORY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT .......................................................... 5 2.1 ORGANISATIONAL BOUNDARIES ................................................................................... 5 2.2 RESPONSIBLE PARTY .................................................................................................... 6 2.3 REPORTING PERIOD COVERED ....................................................................................... 6 2.4 HISTORICAL BASE YEAR SELECTED AND THE BASE YEAR GHG INVENTORY ................. 6 3 CALCULATING GHG EMISSIONS ............................................................................. 6 3.1 GREENHOUSE GASSES AND CO2-EQ DEFINITION .......................................................... 6 3.2 DATA USED FOR CALCULATING GHG EMISSIONS ......................................................... 6 4 SCOPE 1: DIRECT GHG EMISSIONS ......................................................................... 7 4.1 GHG REMOVALS .......................................................................................................... 7 4.2 EXCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................. 7 4.3 DIRECT CO2 EMISSIONS FROM THE COMBUSTION OF BIOMASS ................................... 7 4.4 TOTAL CO2-EQ UNDER SCOPE 1 .................................................................................. 7 5 SCOPE2: INDIRECT GHG EMISSIONS ...................................................................... 7 5.1 QUANTIFICATION METHODOLOGIES ............................................................................. 7 5.2 REASONS FOR SELECTION OF INVENTORY SECTORS ...................................................... 8 5.3 THE OFFICE .................................................................................................................. 8 5.3.1 Facilities ............................................................................................................... 8 5.3.2 Exclusion.............................................................................................................. 8 5.3.3 Measurement method ........................................................................................... 8 5.4 BACKBONE NETWORK .................................................................................................. 9 5.4.1 Facilities ............................................................................................................... 9 5.4.2 Exclusions .......................................................................................................... 10 5.4.3 Measurement Method ........................................................................................ 10 5.4.4 GHG emission of the AMRES network............................................................. 11 5.5 DATA CENTRES ........................................................................................................... 11 5.5.1 Facilities ............................................................................................................. 11 5.5.2 Exclusions .......................................................................................................... 11 5.5.3 Measurement method ......................................................................................... 11 5.5.4 GHG emission of the AMRES Data Centre ...................................................... 12 5.6 TOTAL CO2-EQ UNDER SCOPE 2 ................................................................................ 12 6 SCOPE 3: OTHER INDIRECT GHG EMISSIONS ................................................... 12 6.1 TRANSPORT ................................................................................................................ 12 6.1.1 Scope of transport .............................................................................................. 12 6.1.2 Exclusions .......................................................................................................... 12 6.1.3 Measurement method ......................................................................................... 12 7 SUMMARY OF GHG EMISSIONS ............................................................................. 14 AMRES GHG inventory 2013 Page 3 of 15 List of Figures Figure 1 AMRES Network Topology ...................................................................................... 10 Figure 2 Energy consumption on daily basis ........................................................................... 11 Figure 3 Energy consumption on weekly basis ....................................................................... 12 List of Tables Table 1 Summary of GHG Emissions by AMRES .................................................................. 15 AMRES GHG inventory 2013 Page 4 of 15 1 Introduction 1.1 Background Academic Network of Serbia (AMRES) joined the Green GÉANT Team in 2013 AMRES has just started to build their experience and competencies with Green process and practices .This project will help to provide us guidance and promote sharing experience with other NRENSs which should establish a solid foundation for further development of environmental awareness and some services in Serbian Research & Education community. There are many measures used in calculating and reporting for green audits. In order to establish metrics which can be validated, and which can be replicated at different times and in different organisations, it is important to adhere to recognised standards. In this instance, the ISO standard is the set of documents under ISO 14064. These documents are used to guide the form and content of the inventory process. 1.2 Scope The primary goal of this assessment is to account for the Green House Gas (GHG) emission according to the ISO 14064:2006 part 1 standard. This means that • Scope 1 (direct emissions), • Scope 2 (indirect emissions related to bought energy), and • Scope 3 emissions (e.g. emissions related to the production of bought products, travel, and waste) are all included in this assessment. 1.3 AMRES purpose and profile Academic Network of Serbia (AMRES) is the National Research and Education Network of the republic of Serbia, offering modern information-communication services and Internet connection to its users. AMRES provides significant scientific, research and educational resources and acts as the carrier and catalyst for the Information Society development in Serbia. It's considered to be one of the most advanced networks in our country, with more than 170 connected institutions and more than 150.000 active users. AMRES provides national, regional and local networking services by means of an infrastructure which spans the country. This comprises over 2200 km of dark fibre optic transmission medium, together with switching and routing equipment. One of the tasks it has committed resources to is GN3-NA3-Task 3 part of the GN3Plus program, the main objective of which is to conduct a green audit of the GÉANT network. AMRES audited its own network as part of this project. Above all, AMRES has set the internal goal to raise awareness of IT staff to save consumption of electricity and try to decrease GHG emissions by making the policy for future use. 2 Inventory design and development 2.1 Organisational boundaries AMRES and its network services comprise several separate facilities, some owned and controlled by the AMRES organisation, others equipment collocated to AMRES service AMRES GHG inventory 2013 Page 5 of 15 centres or AMRES institutions. The GHG emissions of AMRES are consolidated into four categories: a. office, b. data centre c. backbone and d. transportation. Each one is measured in a controlled and documented manner. In this way, AMRES accounts for all GHG emissions and removals from facilities over which it has financial and operational control. The operational boundaries of AMRES include • two offices located in Belgrade (Kumanovska 7 and Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 90), • the Backbone Network, • one Data Centre and • transportation incurred as a part of the staff’s work. 2.2 Responsible party The inventory is carried out by: Maja