Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.18
Liaison Weston Dripps
Submission Date Aug. 19, 2024

STARS v3.0

Amherst College
IL-32: Peer Reviewed Carbon Mitigation Projects

Status Score Responsible Party
n/a 0.00 /

Criteria

An institution earns 1 bonus point when it has developed or issued new carbon offsets from one or more off-campus carbon mitigation projects during the previous three years that are verified by qualified peer reviewers rather than (or in addition to) conventional third party verifiers

Measurement

Report on off-campus projects that have resulted in peer-verified carbon offsets within the previous three years.

A project may follow an existing protocol (e.g., approved or endorsed by the Gold Standard, the Verified Carbon Standard, the Climate Action Reserve, or the American Carbon Registry) or a new protocol developed and peer-reviewed by higher education institutions (e.g., approved by The Offset Network), as long as the project is subject to peer verification. 


Applicability

This credit is optional.


Scoring


Measurement

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.