Sustainability Planning

DRAFT 2025 Climate Action Plan

Per guidelines from the UC Office of the President, the UC Berkeley Office of Sustainability has prepared a DRAFT Climate Action Plan for 2025 that is now available for comment. Your feedback will help us create the most impactful plan possible to guide UC Berkeley's climate and sustainability leadership!

Click here to view the plan.

Note: this document is currently viewable for UC Berkeley email addresses only. Please request access if you are not affiliated with UC Berkeley.

Timeline (subject to revision):

• December 2025: Draft plan published.
• January-April 2026: Stakeholder feedback and revision.
• May 2026: Final editing and review.
• June 2026: Leadership approval and submission to UCOP.

How to get involved:

• Fill out this form to provide feedback on the DRAFT plan.
• Attend a stakeholder feedback session in early 2026 (details TBA).
• Other comments/questions/concerns: email sustainability@berkeley.edu. 

Previous and/or existing plans

UC Berkeley Sustainability Plan (2020)

The 2020 UC Berkeley Sustainability Plan set out a wide-range of interwoven goals and strategies. The plan offered a framework for accelerating both the decarbonization of our energy use and the smarter use of resources; for advancing the connections between health, equity, and sustainability; and for deepening campus environmental engagement and learning. This intersectional plan also connected to and informed campus land use and administrative initiatives. 

Berkeley Clean Energy Campus - Integrated Resource & Activation Plan 

The Integrated Resource and Activation Plan (IRAP) is a study  to prepare for design and construction of a new clean energy system that will transform the Berkeley campus into an electrified and renewable energy microgrid that largely eliminates fossil fuel combustion and related on-campus carbon emissions. The IRAP includes technical and financial strategy review, deep stakeholder and expert consultation, and living-lab engagement.

UC Berkeley Resilient Water Plan (2023)

The resilient water plan provides frameworks, planning and design guidance on water use and water related green infrastructure. The plan has two primary components a Sustainable Water Plan to address potable water-use reduction and recycled water strategies and the Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Plan with a focus on large-scale treatment areas on campus. 

2025 Carbon Neutrality Planning Framework (2016)

This framework provides an overview of Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) profile over the next eight years and offers early guidance for Berkeley’s path to decarbonization in scopes 1 and 2.  Expanding on Berkeley’s early success in GHG reductions from campus operations, this framework identifies the opportunities, challenges, and high-level strategy approaches the campus can undertake to both reduce and decarbonize building and fleet energy use. 

Green Labs Action Plan (2020)

The Green Labs  Action Plan aims to improve sustainable practices within research and teaching labs on campus with the goal to incorporate the use of water reduction, waste elimination and energy saving technology, along with actions and procurement strategies for researchers, instructors, and lab spaces. 

Zero Waste Plan (2019)

The Zero Waste Plan offers a summary of key zero waste efforts and data and outlines  a multi-layered strategy focusing on installing standardized bins and infrastructure; educating the campus community about the proper sorting of materials; reusing, repairing and re-circulating usable materials; and, upgrading the procurement process to minimize waste. Resilient Water Plan (coming soon)

UC Berkeley's primary physical planning documents that include sustainability, mobility and resiliency: Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), Campus Master Plan, and Physical Design Framework.

UC Berkeley Sustainable Building Standards Summary (2024). The campus design standards and physical design frameworks support green building program. 

Historic or Retired Plans

• 2009 Climate Action Plan(see campus sustainability plan, 2020)

• 2007 CalCAP Feasibility Report

• 2009/2013 Sustainability Plan (see campus sustainability plan, 2020)

• 2009 Water Action Plan

• 2011 Transportation Demand Management Plan

• Campus Bicycle Plan-2006 (see campus LRDP & Master Plan)

• 2013 UC Berkeley Zero Municipal Solid Waste Plan