EIR_25-150 Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions data
Date of response: 13 June 2025
We have now considered your request of 13 May 2025 for the following information:
This is a request for information under the Environmental Information Regulations.
Please supply me, where available, with the following information: the greenhouse gas emissions of University of East Anglia in tonnes of equivalent CO2 emissions (tCO2e) from 2005 to present.
Please present these in a table broken down by academic year and emissions scope (scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 separately ).
Where information is incomplete (e.g. non-comprehensive, partially calculated scope 3 data) or unavailable, please specify this. Where information is only partially available, please supply this regardless.
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: EIR_25-150 Appendix A, for data held by the University.
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Environmental Information Regulations contain several exceptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exceptions to part of your request.
Exception/Regulation | Reason |
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Regulation 12(4)(a) | Requested information was not held at the time of the request |
Regulation 12(4)(d) | The request relates to material which is still in the course of completion, to unfinished documents or to incomplete data |
Regulation 6(1)(b) | Information is already publicly available and easily accessible to the applicant in another form or format. |
Regulation 12(4)(a) is cited in relation to some of the requested information as it was not held by the University at the time that the request was received. The University does not routinely or consistently record or track Scope 3 (travel) calculations, nor do we hold all the requested information for the requested period. We also do not record or hold recorded information for a breakdown of scope 1 and scope 2 emissions separately.
We have therefore concluded that, at the time the request was received, the University did not hold all of the requested information for the purposes of the EIR.
Regulation 12(4)(d) is cited where the request relates to material, which is still in the course of completion, to unfinished documents or to incomplete data. Due to how our emissions data has been historically recorded, our records are not complete, are impartial or are incomplete.
Where we do hold information, whether it be partial or incomplete, this has been provided to you in EIR_25-150 Appendix A.
Further to this, Regulation 6 (1)(b) is cited in relation to some of the requested information as the information is already publicly available and easily accessible to the applicant in another form or format.
Due to the information requested for academic years 2015-16 to 2022-23 being published on the HESA website, please find this information here: HE Provider Data: Estates Management | HESA.
Data for 2023-24 and 2024-25 are to be published on the aforementioned HESA website.