| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 61.45 |
| Liaison | Austin Sutherland |
| Submission Date | May 1, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Pennsylvania
PAE-5: Climate Action Plan
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Does the institution have a plan to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief summary of the climate plan’s long-term goals:
Penn’s Climate Action Plan is a comprehensive approach to reducing the University’s carbon footprint, enhancing overall sustainability, and in general focus on making Penn a leader in environmental sustainability. The sustainability mission is both educationally important and absolutely critical for our planet as we work towards making Penn the “Greenest Urban Campus.” Penn has identified the year 2042 as an aspirational goal for achieving carbon neutrality. Conservation through capital investment and behavior change strategies, improved low-carbon energy sourcing, and the purchase of RECs and offsets will be among the strategies employed in meeting this ambitious goal.
A brief summary of the climate plan’s short-term goals:
The recommendations of the Climate Action Plan are measurable, achievable, and consistent with the imperatives associated with Penn’s sustainability aspirations. The short-term goals provide a roadmap for translating our vision into reality by integrating our scholarly expertise across our twelve schools in the area of sustainability and putting our knowledge to work. The Climate Action Plan provides tools throughout the University and strategies for implementing behavior change and institutional change. The Plan provides tools throughout the University and strategies for implementing behavior change and institutional change. In the Plan, Penn committed that all new buildings and major renovations on campus will be designed to achieve a LEED Silver Certification or higher. Penn established the new undergraduate minor in Sustainability and Environmental Management in 2009. Penn began a campus-wide remote metering effort which will provide a financially-based approach to monitor energy use and promote conservation. The metering effort consists of installation of chilled water, steam, and electric meters in the majority of campus buildings and the development of a single database to store information to be used for visualization and analysis of the metered energy data. These two concurrent components will be completed by end of fiscal year 2014.
Year the climate plan was formally adopted or approved:
An indication of whether institution has made a commitment to reduce GHG emissions a specific amount by a target year:
List which emissions (scope 1, 2, and/or 3) are included in its GHG emissions commitment:
The reduction level (percentage) institution has committed to:
The baseline year the institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
The baseline emissions level institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
The target year the institution specified in its GHG emissions commitment :
The website URL where information about the climate plan is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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