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Campus Global Warming Commitments

This resource lists campus global warming commitments with specific reduction goals and target dates for achieving them.

Institution Commitment Date of Commitment
College of the Atlantic Net Zero (achieved) Oct. 2006
Middlebury College 8% below 1990 levels by 2012 on a per student basis and carbon neutrality by 2016 May 2004 and May 2007
Colorado State University Carbon neutral by 2020 Sept. 2008
University of Maine Farmington Carbon neutral by 2030 Jan. 2010
Cornell University Carbon neutral by 2050 Sep. 2009
Tufts University 7% below 1990 levels by 2012 and 4% below 1998-2001 baseline by 2006 Apr. 1999 and 2004
UC Berkeley 1990 levels by 2014 May 2007
Stanford University 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 Oct. 2009
Yale University 10% below 1990 levels by 2020 Oct. 2005
Williams College 10% below 1990-91 levels by 2020 Jan. 2007
University of British Columbia 100% below 2007 levels by 2050 (33% by 2015) Feb. 2010
Dartmouth College 20% below 2005 levels by 2015; 25% reduction by 2020; 30% reduction by 2030 Sept. 2008
Brown University 42% below 2007 levels by 2020 Jan. 2008
Harvard University 30% below 2006 levels by 2016 July 2008
Barnard College 30% by 2017 June 2007
Columbia University 30% by 2017 June 2007
Fordham University 30% by 2017 June 2007
New York University 30% by 2017 June 2007
Pace University 30% within the next 10 years Nov. 2008
Bowdoin College 11% below 2002 levels by 2010 Jan. 2006
University of Oklahoma 4% below 1998-2001 baseline by 2006 Jan. 2004
Michigan State University 6% below 1998-2001 baseline by 2010 Nov. 2006
University of California System 2000 levels by 2010, 1990 levels by 2020, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 Jan. 2006
Princeton University 1990 levels by 2020 Feb. 2008
Washington University in St.Louis 1990 levels by 2020 [i.e., 27% reduction of 2009 levels] April 2010
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10% below 2005 levels by 2015; 20% by 2030; 30% by 2040; 45% by 2045; 60% by 2050 June 2006
Johns Hopkins University 51% below 2008 levels by 2025 May 2009
Washington and Lee University 20% reduction of 2010 levels and Carbon neutral by 2050 Jan. 2010

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