In this research, the achievements of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC),World Resources Institute (WRI)and China Youth Climate Action Network(CYCAN)are integrated to develop a new method on energy-related carbon accounting in campus,which is then applied to the analysis of energy-related carbon emissions in one of the universities in Shanghai.The result shows an increasing trend of carbon emissions from2004 to 2012,with an average annual growth rate of 5.75%.Carbon emission in 2012 was 41 112 ton CO_2-eq,in which,electricity-related and gasoline-related emissions accounted for 68.7% and 25.0% respectively.This study compares the low-carbon campus constructions in China with those abroad and points out that the integral and achievable low-carbon planning in western countries is likely to lead to a significant decrease of CO_2 emissions.Therefore,low-carbon in campus is redefined as a lower-carbon condition with continuously improvement and high energy efficiency compared to the baseline condition.A low-carbon campus managing strategy is proposed based on energy-related carbon accounting analysis.