WEBINAR: Critically Evaluating Campus Plans for Climate Action

Is your campus’s climate goal or net zero target meaningful enough that we can tell when it’s achieved? Are we all talking about the same thing when using terms like decarbonization or net zero carbon emissions?

Learn to critique climate goals and get comfortable with the language around them in this online presentation from Amanda Smith, PhD, Project Drawdown’s Senior Scientist for the Built Environment. She will start by clarifying the big picture: how we can support life on Earth by implementing climate solutions quickly, efficiently, and equitably. Clear and actionable climate goals help campuses figure out how to play their part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and they shape decisions related to the prioritization and implementation of climate solutions. You will learn the lingo that’s used to talk about climate solutions — decarbonization, net zero, and electrification — and understand how these terms relate to each other and to the big picture goal. You’ll see what a well-defined campus climate plan or net zero target should look like, and you’ll get a step-by-step procedure for evaluating each element that should be included. Then we’ll have a short breakout session where you will look at a climate plan published by your campus using this procedure. Finally, we’ll all come together to share our discoveries and critiques, and wrap up with discussion and Q&A.

Part 4 of the #EduClimate Webinar Series, brought to you by the University Climate Ambassador program

• • Format: virtual