President's Climate Commitment and the Sustainability Report Card
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Georgia Tech has signed the President's Climate Commitment
The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment is a high visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emisisons, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to restabilize the earth's climate.
To see Georgia Tech's ACUPCC Two-Month Report listing our 3 Tangible Action Items to be worked on while we complete our Greenhouse Gas Inventory click on this link. Georgia Tech is currently completing its Greenhouse Gas Inventory and evaluating our options and developing a strategy to lower our greenhouse gases.
Georgia Tech is an AASHE member
Georgia Tech became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education in 2007.
Sustainability Report Card 2008
2008 is the second year that Georgia Tech has particpated in the Sustainability Report Card published by the Sustainable Endowment Institute . Each year, the Georgia Tech's Sustainability Report Card becomes a topic in the Campus' student newspaper, the Technique (published weekly when school is in session, reaches over 10,000 members of the Georgia Tch community). This year's article about our Sustainability Report Card is available.
Peers vs Georgia Tech on the 2008 Sustainability Report Card
Georgia Tech monitors its performance, and that of our peers. Here is how we compared in the 2008 Sustainability Reort Card. We also talk with our peers and watch their websites. Click here to see our peers' stewardship websites.
For the 2009 Sustainability Report Card, we have put together some webpages for the Endowment Institutes' review:
Endowment, Investments, Influence