California State University, Sacramento
PA-2: Sustainability Planning
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Part 1. Measurable sustainability objectives
Academics
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A list or sample of the measurable sustainability objectives related to academics and the plan(s) in which they are published:
Sacramento State Master Plan
- Create an academic sustainability plan through the sustainability committee
CSU Sustainability Policy
- The CSU will seek to further integrate sustainability into the academic curriculum working within the normal campus consultative process. (14-New)
CSU 2019 Strategic Plan for Research
- Connect Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity with California’s needs for economic growth, health and sustainability
- Influence professional practice to improve the health and sustainability of our communities
Sacramento State Climate Action Plan
- Expand senior projects, class projects, or senior capstone projects dedicated to solving transportation/parking problems
- Integrate climate change mitigation strategies into academic and research
- Create an academic sustainability plan through the sustainability committee
CSU Sustainability Policy
- The CSU will seek to further integrate sustainability into the academic curriculum working within the normal campus consultative process. (14-New)
CSU 2019 Strategic Plan for Research
- Connect Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity with California’s needs for economic growth, health and sustainability
- Influence professional practice to improve the health and sustainability of our communities
Sacramento State Climate Action Plan
- Expand senior projects, class projects, or senior capstone projects dedicated to solving transportation/parking problems
- Integrate climate change mitigation strategies into academic and research
Engagement
Yes
A list or sample of the measurable sustainability objectives related to engagement and the plan(s) in which they are published:
The CSU Sustainability policy includes several sustainability objectives that address student, employee, and community engagement for sustainability.
Examples of such objectives include:
- The CSU will develop employee and student workforce skills in the green jobs industry, promote the development of sustainable products and services, and foster economic development.
- Each CSU is encouraged to designate a sustainability officer responsible for carrying out and/or coordinating campus sustainability program efforts.
- The CSU will cooperate with federal, state, and local governments and other appropriate organizations in accomplishing energy conservation and utilities management objectives throughout the state; and inform students, faculty, staff and the general public of the need for and methods of energy conservation and utilities management.
- Each CSU campus will designate an energy/utilities manager with the responsibility and the authority for carrying out energy conservation and utilities management programs. The Chancellor's Office will have the responsibility to coordinate the individual campus programs into a systemwide program.
- Campuses and food service organizations shall collaborate to provide information and/or training on sustainable food service operations to staff and patrons
- Additionally, the Policy Statement on Energy Conservation, Sustainable Building Practices, and Physical Plant Management for the CSU (Executive Order 987) states that the “CSU shall incorporate appropriate training programs for CSU facilities personnel with the aim of promoting and maintaining the goals” outlined for energy conservation and sustainable building practices.
- The policy also states that “the CSU will encourage continued energy conservation and lowest utilities operating costs on its campuses by instituting incentive plans designed to recognize and reward meritorious achievements by campus staff, faculty, and students beyond normal expectation.”
California State University, Sacramento Anchor University priorities are channeled into various key focus areas:
Education (Pre-K - 12)
Health & Well-Being
Homelessness & Housing
Arts & Culture
Environment
Mobility, and Sustainability
Inclusive Economic Opportunity & Workforce Development
Examples of such objectives include:
- The CSU will develop employee and student workforce skills in the green jobs industry, promote the development of sustainable products and services, and foster economic development.
- Each CSU is encouraged to designate a sustainability officer responsible for carrying out and/or coordinating campus sustainability program efforts.
- The CSU will cooperate with federal, state, and local governments and other appropriate organizations in accomplishing energy conservation and utilities management objectives throughout the state; and inform students, faculty, staff and the general public of the need for and methods of energy conservation and utilities management.
- Each CSU campus will designate an energy/utilities manager with the responsibility and the authority for carrying out energy conservation and utilities management programs. The Chancellor's Office will have the responsibility to coordinate the individual campus programs into a systemwide program.
- Campuses and food service organizations shall collaborate to provide information and/or training on sustainable food service operations to staff and patrons
- Additionally, the Policy Statement on Energy Conservation, Sustainable Building Practices, and Physical Plant Management for the CSU (Executive Order 987) states that the “CSU shall incorporate appropriate training programs for CSU facilities personnel with the aim of promoting and maintaining the goals” outlined for energy conservation and sustainable building practices.
- The policy also states that “the CSU will encourage continued energy conservation and lowest utilities operating costs on its campuses by instituting incentive plans designed to recognize and reward meritorious achievements by campus staff, faculty, and students beyond normal expectation.”
California State University, Sacramento Anchor University priorities are channeled into various key focus areas:
Education (Pre-K - 12)
Health & Well-Being
Homelessness & Housing
Arts & Culture
Environment
Mobility, and Sustainability
Inclusive Economic Opportunity & Workforce Development
Operations
Yes
A list or sample of the measurable sustainability objectives related to operations and the plan(s) in which they are published:
The 2021 Climate Action Plan for Sac State provides a high-level strategy to address a combination of climate and equity-related areas of opportunity for improvement. It is the culmination of the campus’s Strategic Energy Plan that outlines how to reduce operation carbon emissions as well as the campus’s Strategic Plan that outlines the imperatives by placing sustainability, diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion at the forefront of the university’s highest objectives.
After meeting the targeted Assembly Bill 32 requirement to reduce the overall campus carbon emissions footprint to 1990 levels, the university is still on track to meet the next major milestone of reducing overall emissions by 50% of the baseline in 2015. Projects that have been part of that strategy are:
-The installation of an additional 2.5MW of on-site solar PV
- Retrofitting over $6M of LED lighting to replace inefficient fluorescent lighting across campus and using lighting controls to further reduce energy use
- Implementing HVAC scheduling pilot to provide a seamless connection with campus class scheduling software to ensure that space is conditioned only when it needs to be and saving hundreds of hours of manual HVAC scheduling
The CSU includes measurable sustainability objectives that address sustainability in operations in several published policies, including the CSU Sustainability Policy and the Policy Statement on Energy Conservation, Sustainable Building Practices, and Physical Plant Management for the CSU (Executive Order 987). Examples of operational sustainability objectives included in these policies are:
The CSU will strive to reduce systemwide facility greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels, or below, by 2020 consistent with AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (HSC §38550)
The CSU will strive to reduce facility GHG emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2040. Campus tracking and reporting of their GHG inventory will be grounded in the American College and University President's Climate Commitment guidelines or equivalent, with consideration to campus requested improvements. Metrics will include GHG emissions per FTE.
The CSU will endeavor to exceed the State of California and California Public Utilities Commission Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) sooner than the established goal of procuring 33 percent of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020.
All CSU campuses will pursue water resource conservation to reduce water consumption by 10 percent by 2016, and 20 percent by 2020 including such steps to develop sustainable landscaping, install controls to optimize irrigation water use, reduce water usage in restrooms and showers, and promote the use of reclaimed/recycled water.
Campuses shall seek to reduce the solid waste disposal rate by 50 percent (PRC § 42921) by 2016, by 80 percent by 2020, and move to zero waste.
Campuses shall strive to increase their sustainable food purchases to 20 percent of total food budget by 2020.
California State University, Sacramento goals at Presidential Level:
1 Carbon Neutrality by 2040
2. All electric: small engines, shuttles, and campus fleet
3. Zero waste by 2030
4. IPM Plan for drought tolerant native plants
After meeting the targeted Assembly Bill 32 requirement to reduce the overall campus carbon emissions footprint to 1990 levels, the university is still on track to meet the next major milestone of reducing overall emissions by 50% of the baseline in 2015. Projects that have been part of that strategy are:
-The installation of an additional 2.5MW of on-site solar PV
- Retrofitting over $6M of LED lighting to replace inefficient fluorescent lighting across campus and using lighting controls to further reduce energy use
- Implementing HVAC scheduling pilot to provide a seamless connection with campus class scheduling software to ensure that space is conditioned only when it needs to be and saving hundreds of hours of manual HVAC scheduling
The CSU includes measurable sustainability objectives that address sustainability in operations in several published policies, including the CSU Sustainability Policy and the Policy Statement on Energy Conservation, Sustainable Building Practices, and Physical Plant Management for the CSU (Executive Order 987). Examples of operational sustainability objectives included in these policies are:
The CSU will strive to reduce systemwide facility greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels, or below, by 2020 consistent with AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (HSC §38550)
The CSU will strive to reduce facility GHG emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2040. Campus tracking and reporting of their GHG inventory will be grounded in the American College and University President's Climate Commitment guidelines or equivalent, with consideration to campus requested improvements. Metrics will include GHG emissions per FTE.
The CSU will endeavor to exceed the State of California and California Public Utilities Commission Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) sooner than the established goal of procuring 33 percent of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020.
All CSU campuses will pursue water resource conservation to reduce water consumption by 10 percent by 2016, and 20 percent by 2020 including such steps to develop sustainable landscaping, install controls to optimize irrigation water use, reduce water usage in restrooms and showers, and promote the use of reclaimed/recycled water.
Campuses shall seek to reduce the solid waste disposal rate by 50 percent (PRC § 42921) by 2016, by 80 percent by 2020, and move to zero waste.
Campuses shall strive to increase their sustainable food purchases to 20 percent of total food budget by 2020.
California State University, Sacramento goals at Presidential Level:
1 Carbon Neutrality by 2040
2. All electric: small engines, shuttles, and campus fleet
3. Zero waste by 2030
4. IPM Plan for drought tolerant native plants
Administration
Yes
A list or sample of the measurable sustainability objectives related to administration and the plan(s) in which they are published:
Wellbeing - Policy on Student Mental Health (EO 1053)
Campuses shall provide psycho-educational workshops, programs and services that address critical student issues as well as prevention and wellness programs. Programs must be responsive to the diversity of the CSU student population and enhance the ability of students to develop healthy and effective styles of living and learning.
California State University Strategic Plan Sustainabilty Goals:
- Raise Sac State’s profile with local, state,
and federal leaders and diversify additional
- Employ strategies that promote equity for funding to expand and leverage university
employees through training, education, and partnerships, and student opportunities.
- Build strong alumni and community
engagement that supports our students
- Build an employee friendly and supported culture and our philanthropic mission.
that attracts and retains high potential and high Structural/Technological Resources:performing talent to the university.
Expand campus sustainability efforts consistent
with, but not limited to, the University 2021 Climate Action Plan
- Align and increase philanthropic resources to
build stability and support for student success
- Invest in the physical and digital infrastructures
and make transformational investment in the to support desired academic, research, workforce, and University possible. accessibility needs while building on lessons learned from the pandemic
Campuses shall provide psycho-educational workshops, programs and services that address critical student issues as well as prevention and wellness programs. Programs must be responsive to the diversity of the CSU student population and enhance the ability of students to develop healthy and effective styles of living and learning.
California State University Strategic Plan Sustainabilty Goals:
- Raise Sac State’s profile with local, state,
and federal leaders and diversify additional
- Employ strategies that promote equity for funding to expand and leverage university
employees through training, education, and partnerships, and student opportunities.
- Build strong alumni and community
engagement that supports our students
- Build an employee friendly and supported culture and our philanthropic mission.
that attracts and retains high potential and high Structural/Technological Resources:performing talent to the university.
Expand campus sustainability efforts consistent
with, but not limited to, the University 2021 Climate Action Plan
- Align and increase philanthropic resources to
build stability and support for student success
- Invest in the physical and digital infrastructures
and make transformational investment in the to support desired academic, research, workforce, and University possible. accessibility needs while building on lessons learned from the pandemic
Part 2. Sustainability in institution’s highest guiding document
Yes
The institution’s highest guiding document (upload):
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Website URL where the institution’s highest guiding document is publicly available:
Which of the following best describes the inclusion of sustainability in the highest guiding document?:
Major theme
Optional Fields
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Website URL where the institution's sustainability plan is publicly available:
Does the institution have a formal statement in support of sustainability endorsed by its governing body?:
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The formal statement in support of sustainability:
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The institution’s definition of sustainability:
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Is the institution an endorser or signatory of the following?:
| Yes or No | |
| The Earth Charter | No |
| The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) | No |
| ISCN-GULF Sustainable Campus Charter | No |
| Pan-Canadian Protocol for Sustainability | No |
| SDG Accord | Yes |
| Second Nature’s Carbon Commitment (formerly known as the ACUPCC), Resilience Commitment, and/or integrated Climate Commitment | Yes |
| The Talloires Declaration (TD) | No |
| UN Global Compact | Yes |
| Other multi-dimensional sustainability commitments (please specify below) | --- |
A brief description of the institution’s formal sustainability commitments, including the specific initiatives selected above:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability planning efforts is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
More potential projects are outlined in the Climate Action Plan linked below:https://indd.adobe.com/view/0e63ad11-fbe2-4b01-a790-1d3e425ac229
https://www.csus.edu/administration-business-affairs/facilities-management/_internal/_documents/sacramento-state-master-plan-042815-reduced.pdf
https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/11699668/latest/
https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/research/Pages/2018-19-Strategic-Plan.aspx
https://indd.adobe.com/view/0e63ad11-fbe2-4b01-a790-1d3e425ac229
https://www.csus.edu/administration-business-affairs/facilities-management/_internal/_documents/sacramento-state-master-plan-042815-reduced.pdf
https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/11699668/latest/
https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/research/Pages/2018-19-Strategic-Plan.aspx
https://indd.adobe.com/view/0e63ad11-fbe2-4b01-a790-1d3e425ac229
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