Signatories have made institutional commitments to eliminate net greenhouse gas
emissions from campus operations, to address climate adaptation and community capacity - building, and to promote the integration of research and education into these efforts.
Each of the colleges will purchase zero - carbon electricity from the site to reduce carbon
emissions from campus electricity use.
Not exact matches
This is despite an increase in
emissions from several other sources, including an increase in the use of specialty research gases, increases in the carbon - intensity of purchased grid electricity, more severe weather, and new
campus buildings added to the academic building portfolio.
If every college
campus building in the U.S. met this challenge, the CO2
emissions from just four medium - sized coal - fired power plants each year would negate this entire effort.
By connecting digital outreach, live media programs like 24 Hours of Reality, organizing events across US college
campuses, and many, many more initiatives over nearly a year, Road to Paris brought together over 2.2 million citizens
from Philadelphia to the Philippines to call on world leaders to act boldly and decisively at COP 21 with a strong agreement to limit
emissions.