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A requirement of our president’s signature on the “Carbon Commitment” (formerly named “American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment”) was the development of a Climate Action Plan with regular updates. ����ֱ��’s 2010 Climate Action Plan (PDF) identified 2040 as our goal for carbon neutrality with interim target reductions.

In 2017, ����ֱ�� released the first update to the Climate Action Plan, which includes a summary of ����ֱ��'s current greenhouse gas emissions inventory; mitigation and financing strategies; and education, outreach, and community engagement activities.

The 2017 Climate Action Plan (PDF) update addresses innovative as well as best practice strategies for mitigating our organization’s carbon emissions. The process for the development of ����ֱ��'s 2017 Climate Action Plan update utilized a community engagement strategy known as the . The goals of the ����ֱ�� World Cafe event were to harvest new ideas, draft a roadmap for the Climate Action Plan, strengthen an environmental stewardship community mandate, and foster civic agency to support ����ֱ��’s goal of achieving climate neutrality.

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