Local Carbon Offsets 101

June 30, 2009

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Overview

Learn how to integrate local offsets into your broader campus sustainability initiative.

Many universities striving to achieve carbon neutrality are debating the use of RECs and carbon offsets. As the use of RECs and traditional offsets are questioned by some campus leaders, local offsets are emerging as a new way to deliver a positive return on limited campus investment. Local carbon offsets can reduce net carbon emissions economically, build positive community relations, increase economic development, enhance social justice positions, and foster student service learning.

This on-demand webcast shows you how to:

Evaluate quality of local offsets
Find and use local offsets
Expand the benefits of local offsets for maximum added value
Integrate local offsets into your broader campus sustainability initiative

TARGET AUDIENCE

Facilities personnel, sustainability coordinators and managers, energy/utility systems managers, ACUPCC-related personnel, student leaders, service learning managers, communications and marketing staff, administration and finance personnel, and community relations staff.

Agenda

Recorded On June 30, 2009

Evaluating the quality and price of carbon offsets
- Characteristics of high quality carbon projects
- Understanding RECs: the good, bad, and ugly
- Carbon markets, prices, and credibility
Finding and using local offsets
- Defining a local offset
- Surveying local offset providers
- Establishing and growing your own local offset
Expanding the benefits of local offsets for maximum added value
- Adding social benefits to local offset projects
- Putting people first and carbon second as a partnership platform
Integrating local offsets into your broader campus sustainability initiative
- Reaching across disciplines to engage service learning into carbon mitigation
- Combining local offsets with campus social justice initiatives
- Bringing new supporters to sustainability through local offsets

Instructors

Dave Newport

Director, Environmental Center

University of Colorado at Boulder

Dave Newport is director of the Environmental Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder—the nation’s first, largest, and most accomplished center of its kind. Dave Chairs the university’s Carbon Neutrality Working Group, led the creation of CU’s climate action plan, and is a faculty associate in the Environmental Studies department, where he teaches a course in Carbon Neutrality Planning for Higher Education.

Dave is secretary of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and is one of the three original co-creators of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Ratings System, or STARS, that is emerging as higher education’s gold standard for assessing campus sustainability.

Dave led the University of Colorado’s team that last year compiled the nation’s first STARS Gold sustainability assessment award, and CU has also been ranked as the nation’s #1 green campus by Sierra magazine, and is consistently rated among the nations greenest campus by an array of other ranking systems.

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