Climate Action Planning

Submissions Due: March 8th, 2013 at 6:00pm
More details on the timeline available on the submittal page

This track will address key aspects of measuring campus greenhouse gas emissions, such as identifying the emissions reduction strategy, creating plans to reduce emissions, implementing the planned projects, and educating the campus community, especially students, about global climate disruption through formal and informal curriculum. For those campuses that have already completed climate action plans, the challenges ahead include how to implement the plan, and measure and report its success towards meeting reduction targets. The topic of each other track at the conference support campus climate action efforts. You are encouraged to explore the contributions of a particular track to achieving climate action goals, both in terms of operations, curriculum and research.

Possible Session Ideas

Climate Action Plan implementation (Potential Pairing: Energy)
Funding strategies for climate change mitigation (Potential Pairing: Institutionalizing Sustainability)
Integration of climate action plans with other policy documents and plans (Potential Pairing: Institutionalizing Sustainability)
Integrating academic goals into climate action plans (Potential Pairing: Curriculum)
Processes/criteria for setting progressive GHG reduction targets (Potential Pairing: Institutionalizing Sustainability)
Setting a Climate Neutrality date (use of RECs and Offsets) (Potential Pairings: Institutionalizing Sustainability; Social Equity; Research)