alignment with the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals.
Engagement with major British
Columbia institutions is key to SFU.
For example, the Pacific Water
Research Centre (PWRC) recently
hosted a seminar on Vancouver’s Rain
City Strategy to embrace rainwater as
a valuable resource and to conserve
90% of its annual rainfall. The
University also aims to support major
shifts in behaviour such as its advocacy
for a funicular (gondola) to connect
its University campus on the top
of Burnaby Mountain, providing analternative to the diesel-fuelled bus
service. This project has been finally
approved in principle by Burnaby city
council, and would speed up travel
times and cut emission levels.
Another promising project is the
development of the Corix biomass
district energy system on the Burnaby
Mountain campus which will reduce
the campus greenhouse gas emis-
sions by 60%-80%. This — along with
the University’s achievement of
reducing the carbon footprint of the
University’s investment portfolio by
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