PSI Environmental Concept
Preamble
Guiding principles
Goals and implementation
Basic principles, fields of activity and indicators
- PSI meets all legal requirements in the environmental sector (legal compliance)
- PSI measures its resource usage and optimises it with regard to its environmental impact
- PSI develops its premises according to holistic criteria and constructs and operates its buildings, infrastructures and green areas based on the basic principles of sustainable development
- Through mobility management, PSI strives to maximise the use of public and non-motorised transport by its members (see PSI Energy Concept)
- PSI factors environmental aspects into procurement decisions
- PSI creates prerequisites that its members can live up to their responsibility to the environment at their workstations and in their subject and management areas. PSI raises awareness, motivates and activates its members for environmentally friendly conduct
- PSI submits a comprehensive and transparent annual report to the ETH Board on key figures, measures and the achievement of objectives
- Efficient energy use in infrastructure and research (see PSI Energy Concept)
- Reduction of the emissions caused directly and indirectly
- Optimised use of resources (water, paper, chemicals etc.)
- Advanced waste management with a high proportion of recycling
Responsibilities, reporting and communication
PSI's economic, ecological and social responsibility is anchored in the Direction. It is responsible for the active implementation of the environmental strategy and provides the necessary means. It is supported in its work by the Steering Committee for Environment and Energy, the work groups Office and Lab
, Large Research Facilities
and Mobility
, and the PSI environmental protection officer. The staff of the ETH Board supports PSI and the other institutions in the ETH Domain with environmental management, has a coordinating role both internally and externally, and is responsible for reporting at ETH Domain level. The ERFA group appointed by the ETH Board Environment and Energy in the ETH Domain
provides an exchange of experience between the institutions, monitors the accomplishment of their objectives and informs the ETH Board about the progress achieved (periodical reporting).
PSI's objectives in environmental management
- PSI has reached an agreement with the Energieagentur der Wirtschaft (EnAW) on an energy consumption analysis with clearly defined target by the end of 2014. It is striving to increase the energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions with suitable measures
- PSI is implementing the action plan
The Confederation: exemplary in energy
with the appropriate measures and reporting at government level (together with the other institutions in the ETH Domain). It aims for a degree of fulfilment of 80% by 2020 - PSI supports the ETH Domain's objective of achieving an overall energy efficiency increase of 25% by 2020 compared to 2006 within the scope of the action plan
The Confederation: exemplary in energy
- PSI is intensifying its communication activities for energy and environmental management both internally and externally, thereby sensitizing its employees to environmentally conscious behavior as well as to present goals, concepts, and operational measures.
Imprint
Editorial team: Steering Committee for Environment and Energy