The carbon footprint of Trisakti University’s campus in Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract Minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission has become a priority in campus around the world. For example Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia, is currently developing green campus. In developing a green campus, the identification of the existing problem becomes necessary. One aspect of that problem is of GHG emission. Carbon Footprint (CFP) is an indicator of how much GHG emission produced in a campus.. We use six sources of emission to estimate CFP of a campus, i.e., fuel usages (Scope-1), electricity, air conditioning (Scope-2), commuting, wastes, food and other materials (Scope-3). From the data collected at Campus A of Trisakti University in 2018, the total CFP in the campus is 999,571.60kgCO2eq/month. From the total CFP, 84.47% (844,325.52 kgCO2eq/month) derives from Scope-3 consisting mainly of CFP produced from commuting process (53.38 %). With the development of Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Phase-2, we expected the students and the staff, as well as the faculties of Trisakti University will change their mode of transportation from using a private vehicle to using MRT and will eventually decrease the CFP of Scope-3 from 84.47% to 76.97%. Whereas, we propose a five-year plan for Scope-1 and Scope-2 in terms of reducing CFP into 26.22% from the total of CFP at Campus A of Trisakti University in 2018.