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Welcome to UC Berkeley's Climate Action Partnership

The Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP) is a collaboration of faculty, administration, staff, and students working to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at UC Berkeley. CalCAP's work includes:

  • Conducting and third-party verifying an annual ten-source greenhouse gas emissions inventory to track our progress.
  • Engaging the community and guiding action through climate planning and reporting.
  • Developing and implementing infrastructure and behavioral strategies to reduce the climate impacts of buildings and transportation.
  • Setting and meeting a series of emission reduction targets until climate neutrality is achieved.

Recent CalCAP Highlights

  • Cal Climate Action Partnership was honored with a clean air award from Breathe California. Berkeley was one of seven institutions, businesses and individuals to win 2012 Clean Air Awards.

  • The 2011 greenhouse gas inventory shows a decrease in emissions of almost 4% relative to the 2010 inventory. With the 2011 inventory totaling 183,500 metric tons CO2e, the campus has achieved the lowest annual level of emissions since 2006.
  • The campus Strategic Energy Plan (SEP) has completed numerous lighting, HVAC, and commissioning energy efficiency projects. The SEP projects are anticipated to reduce 17,500 metric tons CO2e.
  • The campus now has a comprehensive energy management program that includes departmental incentives to reduce energy use and a behavioral campaign to engage the community in energy conservation. The program includes real-time building energy dashboards.
  • The CalCAP Steering Committee developed draft UC Berkeley guidelines for acquiring Renewable Energy Certificates and Carbon Offsets.


 

CalCAP Features

This plan examines campus progress to date on climate action.

2009 Climate Action Plan

This graduate student report explores what more we can do.

Student CalCAP Contributions

See the new greenhouse gas emissions report.

GHG Emissions Report