Carbon Neutrality Team

The Carbon Neutrality Initiative Team works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus by collaborating in the design and implementation of a variety of programs and projects. Our current areas of focus include:

• Communicating Carbon Neutrality by 2025 - Educating campus faculty, staff, and students about the UC system-wide goal of reaching carbon neutrality and providing opportunities for the whole campus community to participate in reaching that goal.
  • If you would like a CNI Fellow to come to your class, club, or community group to talk about UCSC's energy use, emissions, and plans for reaching carbon neutrality, request a presentation here.
• Climate Resilience - Tina Mathrani is working on a student-led climate vulnerability assessment. If you are a student club, organization, sports team, group of friends, or even an individual and would like to get involved email her at pmathran at ucsc.edu
• Hunter Gieseman is working to celebrate the Carbon Fund turning 10 years old this year! He'll be reaching out to past award winners to make a video series to celebrate all their accomplishments and improve outreach across campus.
• Cool Campus Challenge - Every few years, the UC Office of the President leads a friendly competition to reduce UC's carbon footprint and create a culture of sustainability across the campuses. The next challenge will launch in Winter 2022 quarter. www.CoolCampusChallange.org