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How To Accelerate Your Institution’s Scope 3 Emissions Reductions

  • Catawba College (NC)
  • AASHE (PA)
  • GreenPlaces (NC)

With campus leaders facing mounting pressure to reduce carbon emissions, many institutions are struggling to measure and manage scope 3 emissions. Data collection is highly manual, and many institutions simply ...

  • Posted March 6, 2024
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NAU’S 2022 True-Blue Summer Flex Policy: Financial, Human, and Environmental Sustainability

  • Northern Arizona University (AZ)

In 2022, Northern Arizona University (NAU) implemented a "New NAU workplace" policy, which included True-Blue Summer Fridays, a hybrid-first strategy, and flexible core business hours. The True-Blue Summer Friday program ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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What Greenhouse Gas Inventories Tell Us About our Carbon Goals

  • University of Pittsburgh (PA)

Decarbonizing college campuses is an important step in reducing net global emissions. It is also important to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at universities because of the role colleges play ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Not Your Average Emissions: Scope 3 Challenges, Opportunities, and Taking a Holistic Approach

  • Harvard University (MA)

Reducing Scope 3 emissions is an urgent sustainability challenge, but while the opportunity for impact is great, the journey forward is not always clear or easy. For most organizations, including ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Advancing Sustainability Initiatives Beyond Campus to Communities

  • Vanderbilt University (TN)
  • Clearloop (TN)
  • Panola Partnership (MS)

As more higher education institutions seek to reduce their carbon footprints and implement sustainability goals, a new partnership between Clearloop and Vanderbilt University showcases climate and community leadership in action ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Carbon Budget Implementation at University of Gothenburg: Meeting the -50% CO2e Goal

  • University of Gothenburg

The session will describe how the University of Gothenburg decided to meet the challenge of reducing the CO2-emissions by implementing a carbon budget at faculty level. Working together with a ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Integrating Sustainability into Daily Decisions: A Path to Greener Practices for Campus Partners

  • Montana State University (MT)

This presentation showcases the unique benefits of the Green Cats Program at Montana State University, and helps audience members learn how to implement similar programming at their home institutions. The ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Campus Decarbonization Through Comprehensive Energy Retrofits

  • College of the Atlantic (ME)

Over the last two years, College of the Atlantic has reduced our buildings' fossil fuel consumption and the resulting scope 1 carbon emissions from our buildings by 50%/square foot ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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How to Achieve 70% Carbon Footprint Reduction for Minimal Cost and Beyond

  • University of Toledo (OH)

The University of Toledo has achieved approximately 70% carbon footprint reduction, saves millions in energy costs, and has one of the lowest energy usages in the region. This technical presentation ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Menuing toward Net Zero: Coolfood Meals and Emissions Targets

  • Aramark (PA)

Food systems are estimated to contribute over 1/3 of overall annual greenhouse gas emissions. In an effort to address this, Aramark has implemented Coolfood Meals, a low carbon menu ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Where’s the Easy Button? Rolling Up Your Sleeves & Advancing Climate Action Through Electrification

  • Columbia University (NY)
  • University at Buffalo (NY)
  • Wendel

Renewables, check; food systems, working on it; conservation programs, being advanced; electric vehicles, in route. What? We still have another 40% of our footprint to decrease (even without embodied carbon ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Mitigating Air Travel Emissions

  • University of Pennsylvania (PA)
  • University of Toronto (ON)

Air travel is inextricably linked with the research and outreach mission of universities and as a result is a significant contributor to GHG emissions when Scope 3 is accounted for ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Implementing Coolfood at Three US Universities

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • University of Pittsburgh (PA)
  • Williams College (MA)
  • World Resources Institute (DC)

Coolfood Pledge members commit to a target of reducing GHG emissions associated with the food they serve by 25 percent by 2030. Learn about the credible and proven way to ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Crisis University: Federal Funds for Transitioning Campuses of Zero Waste Zero Emissions

  • Haverford College (PA)
  • Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) (VA)

The recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signifies that for the first time in the history of the United States, the full financial power of the federal government ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Can Online Teaching Reduce the Carbon Footprint of the Internationalisation of UK Higher Education?

  • University of Sussex (Sussex)

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a learning curve for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in devising and delivering teaching online. This transition has enabled HEIs to continue teaching students, especially international ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective

  • Nottingham Trent University
  • University of Coimbra
  • Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
  • Open University of the Netherlands
  • Universidade Fernando Pessoa
  • Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Background: The implementation of sustainability at universities means that they can also play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy, and in assisting global efforts towards ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Reducing air travel emissions in academia: an exploration of universities’ manoeuvring room

  • University of Graz

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the manoeuvring room of higher education institutions to take action to reduce emissions from academic flying. In particular, this study investigates how university staff ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Grappling with Climate Change and the Internationalization of the Higher Education: An Eco-Socialist Perspective

  • University of Melbourne (Victoria)

Universities worldwide have come to embrace the rhetoric of environmental sustainability and a commitment to climate action while simultaneously seeking to internationalize themselves within the context of the global economy ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Exploring the Intersection of Science and Policy: The Case Study of Installing Solar Panels and Energy Storage System at the University of Ottawa

  • University of Ottawa (ON)

Buildings account for up to a third of total world greenhouse gas GHG emissions, and this pattern is expected to persist. By 2050, cities will be home to 70 % of ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Air travel and academia : understanding the perceived benefits and barriers to reducing air miles

  • University of Canterbury

Air travel is hugely damaging to the environment. It is also a common practice in the academic community. This study contributes an understanding of what drives air travel amongst academics ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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The Green Passport Program: Proposing A Study Abroad Program to Encourage Sustainable Behavior and Offset Emissions

  • University of Richmond (VA)

The University of Richmond has a goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, and in order to do this, carbon offsets are likely a necessary component to implement in lieu ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences

  • Boston University (MA)

Boston University’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences is the University’s largest [academic building] addition to the Charles River Campus in 50 years and its most sustainable building ...


Yale Undergrad Confronts the Emanating Climate Threat of Refrigerant Leaks through the Yale Refrigerants Initiative (YRI)

  • Yale University (CT)

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many (if not all) universities’ sustainability offices had to reimagine what engaging with their communities looked like and how they’d meet campus ...


Air Travel Offset Program

  • University of Pennsylvania (PA)

In July 2021, the University of Pennsylvania enacted a University-wide travel sustainability policy that created the Climate Impact Offset (CLIO) charge to pay for projects that offset the carbon impacts ...


Regional Decarbonization Framework (RDF) - Integrated Long-Term Planning from San Diego County

  • San Diego County (CA)

The global scientific consensus is unequivocal: the world is in the midst of a climate crisis and our window to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions is closing. In order to ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Governance & Administration

  • Austin College (TX)
  • Ball State University (IN)
  • Southern New Hampshire University (NH)

This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to governance and administration. The Lightning Talks are: Harvesting Carbon Capital: Using the Carbon Credit Purchasing Program (C2P2) - This session ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Measuring Emissions From Student Travel

  • Stanford University (CA)

While organizations, institutions, and companies routinely report emissions from Business Travel and Employee commuting, emissions from student travel are another source of air travel emissions that higher education institutions may ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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From Planning to Implementation: Swarthmore College's Roadmap to Zero Carbon

  • Swarthmore College (PA)

In February 2021, Swarthmore College’s Board of Managers approved the College’s Energy Plan, a comprehensive energy and utility plan that charts the path to decarbonizing campus infrastructure in ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Zero Hour for Net Zero at University of Tasmania

  • University of Tasmania (TAS)

While the University of Tasmania has been certified carbon neutral since 2016, delivery of a holistic Emissions Reduction Strategic Plan has come to fruition in 2022. Our approach to emissions ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Beyond Carbon Neutral – Our Path to Climate Positive

  • University of Toronto (ON)

The University of Toronto is committed to taking decisive action against climate change, one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Our commitment is to go beyond carbon neutral ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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The Wild West of Scope 3 Mitigation

  • University of California, Office of the President (CA)
  • Brailsford & Dunlavey (DC)

Join California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the University of California (UC) System as they share their measurable Scope 3 mitigation solutions approach. In collaboration with the Brailsford & ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Energy and carbon reduction - A total holistic approach by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has been actively implementing various energy reduction efforts to promote sustainability and reduce its carbon footprint. The university recognizes the importance of energy conservation and has ...


Franklin University Switzerland’s ACT Program: A Case Study in Stakeholder Carbon Markets for College Campuses

  • Franklin University Switzerland (Ticino)

At Franklin University Switzerland, Academic Travel (“AT”) has historically been the university-funded activity that generates the greatest amount of carbon emissions by the Franklin community each year. In order to ...


UMass Dining Carbon Rating System

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)

Announced on Earth Day, 2022, and in partnership with My Emissions, UMass Dining, the nation's award winnning and largest higher education internally operated dining program, has launched an A-E ...

  • Posted Jan. 10, 2023
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Farmington Solar Facility

  • Amherst College (MA)
  • Bowdoin College (ME)
  • Hampshire College (MA)
  • Smith College (MA)
  • Williams College (MA)

Farmington Solar Project - The New England College Renewable Partnership (NECRP) is a consortium of five small New England liberal arts colleges - Smith, Amherst, Bowdoin, Hampshire, and Williams - and is highlighted ...


How to reach net-zero emissions? Extract CO2 and put it to better use

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Excess carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere can be isolated and transformed into value-added chemicals for fuels, a team of researchers in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering say ...


Scope 3 Business-related air travel Greenhouse Gas emissions at Royal Roads University, Victoria BC

  • Royal Roads University (BC)

I completed an analysis of GHG emissions for all air travel during the 2019 calendar year at Royal Roads University; this analysis included travel emissions of the University Executive; its ...

  • Posted June 13, 2022
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BU Wind

  • Boston University (MA)
  • Edison Energy (CA)
  • ENGIE (TX)

BU Wind is a clean energy project in South Dakota that the University enabled, fulfilling a key goal of the University’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). A central element of ...


Engaging with Indigenous Communities for Climate Action: The Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project

  • McGill University (QC)

The Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project is an initiative that is at the leading edge of carbon offsetting projects in higher education. The multi-faceted initiative, financed by the University, provides benefits to ...


Climate Impact Offset Charge (CLIO) for University of Pennsylvania Air Travel

  • University of Pennsylvania (PA)

As of July, 2021, the University of Pennsylvania enacted a University-wide travel sustainability policy that created the Climate Impact Offset (CLIO) charge to pay for projects that offset the carbon ...


The influence of group-level factors on individual energy-saving behaviors in a shared space: The case of shared residences

  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • Shenzhen University

In business and service buildings, shared spaces constitute large areas where occupants share energy resources and manage them. Changing people's behaviors toward conscious and efficient energy use within shared ...


Arranging university semester date to minimize annual CO2 emission: A UK university case study

  • University of Edinburgh
  • Tsinghua University
  • Sichuan University

Existing methods of reducing carbon emissions on campus often require substantial investment, and the potential opportunities for carbon dioxide and energy savings in universities with existing infrastructure have not been ...


Achieving Sustainability and Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education Institutions: A Review

  • Victoria University (Victoria)
  • Charles Darwin University

Universities and higher education institutions play an important role in achieving a sustainable future through their teaching and by undertaking cutting edge research to combat climate change. There have been ...


Correlation between electric energy use and CO2 emissions in a university campus in Brazil

  • Universidade Federal Fluminense

The purpose of this article is to examine the correlations between greenhouse gas (GHG) by CO2eq emissions and the use of electricity on the Praia Vermelha campus of the Universidade ...


Carbon footprint in Higher Education Institutions: a literature review and prospects for future research

  • Universitat Jaume I (Castelló)

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) or universities, as organisations engaged in education, research and community services, play an important role in promoting sustainable development. Therefore, they are increasingly linked to the ...


Students’ home-university commuting patterns: A shift towards more sustainable modes of transport

  • University of Minho

Students commuting to and from university campuses have important social, environmental and transportation impacts. Based on a questionnaire conducted with 686 students from the University of Minho, Portugal, this study ...


Sustainable design of Cornell University campus energy systems toward climate neutrality and 100% renewables

  • Cornell University (NY)

In this paper, the sustainable design of carbon-neutral energy systems is addressed, considering earth source heat, lake source cooling, on-site renewable electricity generation, and sustainable peak heating systems. The electricity ...

  • Posted April 25, 2022
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How to make low-carbon academia fly? Reducing academic air travel beyond COVID-19

  • Norwegian University of Life Sciences

This article seeks to advance our understanding of the underlying reasons that sustain high levels of academic flying, and explores how a low carbon academia with less academic air travel ...

  • Posted March 10, 2022
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Setting a Path for Elimination of Carbon Emissions through Electrification of Natural Gas Equipment

  • Stanford University (CA)

Stanford University has reduced its carbon emissions by 69% from peak levels in 2011 and is on track to achieve 80% reduction in the next year through procurement of 100 ...

  • Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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How Swarthmore College and Vanderbilt University are Neutralizing Their Footprint with Climate Vault

  • Swarthmore College (PA)
  • Climate Vault (IL)

This session will explore how verified carbon offsets play an important role for higher education institutions to reduce and/or neutralize their carbon footprint – and how one non-profit’s approach ...

  • Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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