Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

Carnegie Mellon University
PAE-5: Climate Action Plan

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 2.00 Martin Altschul
Director of Strategic Facilities Initiatives of FMCS
Facilities Management Services
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Does the institution have a plan to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions that meets the criteria for this credit?:
No

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A brief summary of the climate plan’s long-term goals:
In 2010, the GHG inventory data, for multiple years was researched and entered into the CACP inventory spreadsheet. Student projects will work to refine the data and research possible mitigation targets and goals. The university will conduct an annual GHG inventory.

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A brief summary of the climate plan’s short-term goals:
In 2010, the GHG inventory data for multiple years was researched and entered into the CACP inventory spreadsheet. Student projects will work to refine the data and research possible mitigation targets and goals. The university will conduct an annual GHG inventory.

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Year the climate plan was formally adopted or approved:
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An indication of whether institution has made a commitment to reduce GHG emissions a specific amount by a target year:
No

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List which emissions (scope 1, 2, and/or 3) are included in its GHG emissions commitment:
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The reduction level (percentage) institution has committed to:
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The baseline year the institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
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The baseline emissions level institution used in its GHG emissions commitment:
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The target year the institution specified in its GHG emissions commitment :
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The website URL where information about the climate plan is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Carnegie Mellon is a part of the local Pittsburgh Climate Initiative's Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC), and we have developed a regional Climate Action Plan with several other local universities. The Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan, Version 2 http://pittsburghclimate.org/category/higher-education/

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