JiSMART2021—049: Concept and Development of Low-carbon Campus in China and Japan to Cope with Global Climate Change

Abstract

Under the premise of global climate change, more than 190 countries around the world have reached the Copenhagen agreement to voluntarily save energy and reduce emissions and vigorously develop a low-carbon economy. As a special unit with dense population and strong social influence, universities are a good platform to promote low-carbon life. Through various publicity methods to guide students to establish the concept of lowcarbon life and form low-carbon living habits, so as to play an exemplary role in the whole society and create a good low-carbon living atmosphere. In addition, universities consume huge energy resources, which is far higher than the average consumption level of society. Therefore, it is imperative to build a low-carbon campus. This paperwill show the low-carbon campus from the two aspects of Universities in Japan and China, to get the correlation and differences between the two.