Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.17
Liaison Ian Johnson
Submission Date March 4, 2020

STARS v2.2

Colorado College
PRE-2: Points of Distinction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Ian Johnson
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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Name of the institution’s featured sustainability program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Colorado College Carbon Neutral 2020

A brief description of the institution’s featured program, initiative, or accomplishment:

Colorado College committed to carbon neutrality by 2020 in 2009 and has achieved that milestone as of January 1, 2020. Through building renovations, adoption of 100% renewable energy on-site and locally, the construction of a Net-zero energy/carbon library, and efficiency projects, the college has reduced on-site (scopes 1 and 2) emissions by 75%, while also mitigating its business travel, student, faculty, and staff commuting, solid waste, waste water, and paper purchasing with investments in off-site projects that actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.


Which of the following impact areas does the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment most closely relate to?:
Air & Climate
Energy

Website URL where more information about the accomplishment may be found:
STARS credit in which the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment is reported (if applicable):
As STARS data is generally looking at prior fiscal year information (along with the GHG inventory information being reported in STARS), this information will not be reflected in this most recent submission, but will be in teh 2021 submission under OP-2 an

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Name of a second highlighted sustainability program/initiative/accomplishment:
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STARS credit in which the second program/initiative/accomplishment is reported (if applicable):
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Name of a third highlighted program/initiative/accomplishment:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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