Clean16 / en Marc Couture wins 2024 Clean16 Award /celebrates/marc-couture-wins-2024-clean16-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Marc Couture wins 2024 Clean16 Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-10-17T08:45:28-04:00" title="Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - 08:45" class="datetime">Tue, 10/17/2023 - 08:45</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/clean16" hreflang="en">Clean16</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/clean50" hreflang="en">Clean50</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-10/Marc-Couture-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Marc Couture (supplied image)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><b>Marc Couture</b>, director, sustainability and energy management, at the University of Toronto’s Sustainability Office, is one of <a href="https://clean50.com/honourees/marc-couture-p-eng/">Canada’s Clean16 Award recipients</a> and <a href="https://clean50.com/">a Clean50 honouree</a>.</p> <p>For more than a decade, the Clean50 Awards have recognized 50 Canadian sustainability leaders who facilitate understanding, collaboration and innovation in the fight to limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels. The leader in each category receives the Clean16 award.  Last year, <a href="/celebrates/ron-saporta-receives-clean50-clean16-awards">山ǿ's <strong>Ron Saporta</strong> was recognized with the award</a>.</p> <p>Couture was recognized for his leadership in developing <a href="https://climatepositive.utoronto.ca/">the climate positive campus strategy </a>for the St. George campus and implementing a tri-campus sustainability performance standard.</p> <p>“Through Marc’s leadership and technical expertise, the university is undertaking a radical transformation of its nearly 200-year-old campus,” says <strong>Luke Barber</strong>, acting chief operating officer, property services and sustainability at 山ǿ’s Facilities &amp; Services. “This means setting a goal of moving the campus beyond net-zero to climate positive by eliminating more carbon than it produces.”</p> <p>The industry-leading tri-campus sustainability performance standard aims to hold 山ǿ’s $5-billion capital program and $40 million per year in infrastructure projects to the strictest energy and carbon standards in the country, Barber says, adding this standard has already been applied to over 80 capital projects totaling more than $3 billion in value. This has resulted in energy and carbon designs that have already helped 山ǿ avoid an incremental 8,500 tonnes of carbon annually.</p> <h4><a href="https://clean50.com/about/">Read more about the Clean50 Awards</a></h4> <h4><a href="https://climatepositive.utoronto.ca/">Read more about the climate positive campus strategy&nbsp;</a></h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4>&nbsp;</h4> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:45:28 +0000 lanthierj 303742 at Ron Saporta receives Clean50, Clean16 awards /celebrates/ron-saporta-receives-clean50-clean16-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ron Saporta receives Clean50, Clean16 awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-10-13T11:21:18-04:00" title="Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 11:21" class="datetime">Thu, 10/13/2022 - 11:21</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/clean50" hreflang="en">Clean50</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/clean16" hreflang="en">Clean16</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Clean16%2650Award-RonSaporta.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Ron Saporta</strong>, chief operating officer at the University of Toronto’s Facilities &amp; Services, has been named <a href="https://clean50.com/honourees/ron-saporta/">a 2023&nbsp;Canada's Clean16 and Clean50 honouree</a> by Delta Management Group.</p> <p>The Clean50 awards recognize sustainability leaders in Canada across 16 industry categories – with the leader in each category receiving the Clean16.</p> <p>“As an environmental engineer and an alumnus of 山ǿ, I am grateful for the rare opportunity to work on a lifelong passion – bettering our environment with technology and innovation – alongside excellent and dedicated colleagues,” Saporta said. “We have rolled up our sleeves and are excited to make progress on our Climate Positive Campus plan, which I hope can serve as a model for other organizations to reimagine and rebuild their infrastructure in our efforts against climate change.”&nbsp;</p> <p>Delta Management Group said Saporta was selected for leading the St. George campus with a sustainability strategy that seeks to make it <a href="https://climatepositive.utoronto.ca/">a climate-positive and greenhouse gases-negative campus</a> by 2050.</p> <p>“I’m thrilled that Ron is being recognized for his sustainability leadership. In only four years as chief operating officer, Ron has generated real momentum in rethinking how our downtown campus can operate without a carbon footprint,” said <strong>Scott Mabury</strong>, 山ǿ’s vice-president, operations and real estate partnerships. “Together with academic leadership and his talented team, he launched the university’s plan for the St. George campus to become climate positive by 2050. I’m grateful to have Ron at the helm as we completely transform our infrastructure and energy systems.”&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://clean50.com/">Read more about the awards</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:21:18 +0000 lanthierj 177273 at