Campaign for Reducing Carbon Emissions, UMY Holds Cycling Together and Plants 100 Trees
Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) held the Carbon Footprint Reduction Campaign (CFRC) 2021, an annual activity, as one of the commitments to implement the Healthy UMY program and participate in the World Bicycle Day and World Environment Day. Cycling with academics and planting 100 trees are the CFRC schedule for this year, Saturday (12/6).
CFRC is an activity held by UMY every year as a form of campus concern in reducing carbon emissions by cycling, said the Vice-Rector for Human Resources of UMY, Prof. Dr. Nano Prawoto, SE., M.Si.
“UMY has been classified as a Green Campus for the past four years, and we intend to keep it that way. One of them is the Carbon Footprint Reduction Campaign 2021, which includes tree planting,” Nano added.
Planting trees is a form of CO2 absorption that is crucial to this endeavor. “We do all of this to make the campus climate more accommodating and green.
On the one hand, people are healthy, the atmosphere is favorable, oxygen production is plenty, and the academics will undoubtedly be more productive,” he continued.
The CFRC 2021 activity began with a bicycle tour of several UMY historical places at 6:00 a.m, including the Firdaus Clinic on Jl. Tendean, which was previously a UMY classroom.
“Then proceed to Asri Medical Center (AMC) in Wirobrajan and see the Gramasurya printing house, which was originally the location of the Faculty of Medicine UMY,” explained Ir. Tony K. Hariadi, M.T., one in charge of the event.
CFRC ended with the planting of 100 trees on campus-owned land. Although the CFRC involved 100 participants, the health procedure applied due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“We have prepared for social distancing, masks, and hand sanitizer.” Moreover, we will not send 100 people on bicycles all at once, but instead 20, 25, and so on. So there will be no crowds, mainly because the field is 8,000 square meters in size and has an open area,” Tony concluded.
On that occasion, the President of Muhammadiyah, Prof. Dr. Haedar Nasir, M.Sc., and his wife, personally welcomed the UMY group of cyclists in front of his private residence.