Bring your ideas to the Office of Sustainability’s Climate Action Planning Forum

April 20th, 3-4pm in the Goodwin Forum.

Please attend and contribute to the development of our campus Climate Action Plan.

For more information, visit www2.humboldt.edu/sustainability/node/192 or contact Jesse Carpentier at jac1201@humboldt.edu.

About the Climate Action Plan:

HSU is a leader in the integration of sustainability into its operations and academics, yet many of HSU’s operational and business activities generate greenhouse gases (GHG), which contribute to global climate change and its associated affects on social, economic and environmental systems.

HSU is poised to join other CSU campuses in reducing its GHG emissions through the development and implementation of a Climate Action Plan (CAP), a planning and policy document designed to guide and prioritize emissions reduction measures. The CAP will align with the CSU Sustainability Policy, which calls for campuses to reduce their GHG emissions to levels seen in 1990, or below, by 2020, and to further reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2040.  Starting in 2015 the Office of Sustainability will be leading the development of the CAP for Humboldt State. 

Important components of the CAP include:

• Climate action goals in the areas of academics, research, and campus operations
• Target dates for achieving goal
• Strategies and actions to:
• Integrate climate change and sustainability into the curriculum and other educational experiences
• Expand research on climate change, mitigation measures and resiliency
• Reduce HSU's direct and indirect GHG emissions
• Mechanisms for tracking progress on goals and actions

In 2014 the Office of Sustainability completed a greenhouse gas inventory, which documents campus emissions from 1990 to the Present. View the complete report: https://www2.humboldt.edu/sustainability/sites/default/files/HSU%20GHG%20Inventory%20Report%202014.pdf