Three Simple Steps to a Carbon Neutrality Plan

February 26, 2009

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Overview

Learn a three-step approach towards carbon neutrality.

For institutions that have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, the deadlines for having a clear plan of action for achieving carbon neutrality can seem overwhelming. Even schools that haven't signed the pledge but are interested in reducing their carbon footprint will need some help getting started. How will you conduct your carbon inventory? What are your carbon mitigation options? How long will it take to achieve carbon neutrality?

In this on-demand webcast, learn from Dave Newport, Director of the Environmental Center at University of Colorado at Boulder. Dave discusses specific tools and concepts that will help you determine a carbon neutrality action plan for your campus.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Facilities directors, sustainability coordinators and managers, environmental center directors and managers, and others who have been tasked with will leave this on-demand webcast with the knowledge and skills to create a realistic plan for carbon neutrality.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Attendees will learn how to:

Create an accurate carbon inventory simply
Evaluate carbon mitigation options
Quickly project future emissions
Determine a carbon neutral action plan and date quantitatively

Agenda

Recorded On Thursday, February 26, 2009

Step one: carbon inventory made easy
- A one page inventory tool
- Secrets of data mining
- Limit your scope(s)
- Benchmarks and context
Step two: evaluating your carbon mitigation options
- Ripening your low hanging fruit
- Options that create buy in
- Marginal abatement costs made simple
- Co-benefits lead to cooperation
Step three: likely future trends and your zero date(s)
- A simple tool for projecting future emissions
- How to account for likely outside influences
- Staging zero dates and phasing
- Continuous improvements

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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$350.00

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