United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)
www.unssc.org
HQ: Torino, Italy
Focal Point: Patrick Van Weerelt / Pelin Keskin
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
"UNSSC plays an essential role in supporting the United Nations and its partners to address climate change and foster sustainable development by advancing inter-agency and multi-stakeholder learning and knowledge exchange," said Jafar Javan, Director of the United Nations System Staff College. "We will continue our commitment to work with the Greening the Blue initiative, offer learning, training, and knowledge management on the circular economy, climate change, climate-sensitive programming, and sustainable lifestyles, and reflect upon our internal sustainability efforts to ensure that our way of working aligns with the values of the United Nations in protecting the environment and fighting climate change."
Jafar Javan, UNSSC Director
MISSION
The mission of the Staff College is to contribute to a more effective, results-oriented and agile United Nations through learning, training and knowledge dissemination.
FIELD OFFICES
UNSSC HQ’s are based in Turin and its second Campus in Bonn, Germany.
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
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EMS AND REDUCTION EFFORTS
Indicator 7.3 of the 2018-19 Strategic Plan set as compulsory feasibility studies to obtain an independent Certification of Sustainable Operations, into the framework of an EMS.
Each year, as part of the Greening the Blue Report on Environmental Governance, each participating UN entity’s progress on the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS) is evaluated according to the UN system’s EMS criteria (these criteria are available on the Methodology webpage). Upon this evaluation the entity is then rated Exceeds, Meets, Approaches, or No response. For the 2022 reporting year, UNSSC’s progress on the EMS is rated as: Does not meet.
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS IN POLICIES, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES
For the 2022 reporting year, UNSSC’s status of implementing environmental and social safeguards and standards in their policies, projects and programmes is: No.
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL
For the 2022 reporting year, UNSSC’s status on providing training on environmental sustainability is: No.
ENVIRONMENTAL INVENTORY APPROACH
Included: Carbon Footprint, waste and water. It does include facilities, air travel, land travel and all operations in general terms.
Excluded: Commuting
OFFSETTING
UNSSC’s total carbon footprint for 2021 has been calculated to 99 tonnes CO2eq and it has reported completely on greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water. To offset the total greenhouse gas emission, 99 CERs were purchased through the UN Carbon Offset Platform from the Balsio Small Hydroelectric Project of Ginni Global Pvt. Ltd., EKI Energy Services Ltd.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
The UN Campus is implementing measuring ultrasound sensors in the waste dumpsters. This project will result in fine tuning our waste inventory and therefore corrective actions to reduce waste.
Waste reduction could be measured only as from 2019.
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WATER AND WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT
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