Climate Proposal

Source: https://ucop.app.box.com/s/kkyw436a9i10q80gtqmi0w4tqaj2gjyc (Fossil-Free UC Task Force, 2025) 

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The systemwide Academic Council of the Academic Senate has before it a proposal from UC-San Diego and UC-San Francisco to create a Committee on Climate Change and Sustainability. Its goal seems to be advice on how to "decarbonize" energy consumption on the various UC campuses. As the chart above shows, that goal might be particularly challenging for UCLA which at present generates about two thirds of its campus electricity from an on-campus facility fueled by natural gas built in the 1990s. (Photo to the right.) Although UC-Berkeley generates a larger percentage, that campus is smaller due to the absence of a medical facility.

The proposal can be found at https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/council-chair-systemwide-senate-review-committee-on-sustainability.pdf. 

A request for comments by campus senates has been made. Comments are due by April 21.