climate change action group

Group Leaders: Brooke Owyang and Victor Franco

Meeting Times: Mondays 5-6PM (110 Wheeler Hall)

Goals:

• Work with CACS and CSSC to conduct an inventory of campus greenhouse gas emission sources and estimate the university's contribution to global warming
• Use the above as a baseline for achieving Kyoto Protocol compliance by 2012
• Work with the university and UCOP to develop a policy of climate neutrality
• Educate students and university community about climate change issues
• Create online resources for students (available classes, links, other resources)
• Collaborate with ECo Lobbying action group

Potential Projects/Events:

• Follow-up to Climate change Debate last semester (Solutions-based)
• Earth Day

Potential groups for collaboration:

• CACS - Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability
• CSSC - California Student Sustainability Coalition
• ERG - Energy & Resources Group, Climate Change Policy Group
• ESLP - Education for Sustainable Living
• NAELS - National Association of Environmental Law Societies
• Cool Air - Clean Planet
• Climate Change Campaign (http://www.climatecampaign.org/) - Billy Parrish
• LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab groups working on Climate Change Issues

Timeline for Spring 2005:

• 02/04/05 - CA Universities Climate Change Summit
• 02/11/04 - CACS meeting, propose project under Assessment Sub-Committee
• 02/25/05-02/27/05 - CSSC Convergence @ UCSB
• 04/20/05 - Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Panel
• 04/22/05 - inventory completed and presented to the Chancellor at the Earth Day Summi