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Climate Action Plan for Palo Alto College

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Submitted on December 15, 2011; last updated on December 15, 2011

Climate Action Plan Details

Climate Action Plan	Palo Alto College Climate Action Plan
Date Adopted	September 1, 2011
Graphical Representation of Mitigation Strategies	No information provided.
Graphical Representation of Emissions Trajectory	No information provided

Emissions Targets

Climate Neutrality Target
Climate Neutrality Target Date	No information provided
If you have any qualifying statements with regard to the climate neutrality target date, please include them here, and/or if you have chosen "TBD" and not specified a neutrality date, please enter the reason and explain the process for establishing a target date in the future. Palo Alto College has recently completed a major capital improvement project that has increased the campus size. Only one greenhouse gas report has been completed at this time. Once the next GHG report is complete the college will have more data to predict and set a climate neutrality target date.

Climate Neutrality Target

Climate Neutrality Target Date

No information provided

If you have any qualifying statements with regard to the climate neutrality target date, please include them here, and/or if you have chosen "TBD" and not specified a neutrality date, please enter the reason and explain the process for establishing a target date in the future.

Palo Alto College has recently completed a major capital improvement project that has increased the campus size. Only one greenhouse gas report has been completed at this time. Once the next GHG report is complete the college will have more data to predict and set a climate neutrality target date.

Nonstandard Emissions Targets
Please enter below any targets that do not fit into the above format. No information provided

Narratives

Please describe your institution's greenhouse gas mitigation strategies.

Palo Alto College plans to focus on energy efficiency projects and low cost capital retrofit projects to reduce energy consumption. Continuous Commissioning process implemented by the Energy Systems Laboratory help to achieve this goal. The college's Board of Trustees have been working on implementing policies for the colleges to abide by. Academically, courses are continually being restructured to incorporate sustainability in their curriculum.

Please describe your institution's plans to make sustainability a part of the curriculum for all students.

Palo Alto College has implemented alternate energy courses into their course curriculum to meet their sustainability requirements. Alternative energy demonstration models such as a 1kW wind turbine has been installed for instructional purposes.

Please describe your institution's plans to expand research efforts toward the achievement of climate neutrality.

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Please describe your institution's plans to expand community outreach efforts toward the achievement of climate neutrality.

The success of carbon neutrality is based on educating and engaging the surrounding community through outreach programs. This will integrate sustainability into its curriculum through its education and community outreach efforts. The college is committed to incorporating sustainability into all its educational curriculums, student services and programs designed for Faculty and staff as well as maintenance personnel. Many departments and Continuing education programs have begun incorporating sustainability into their curriculum and courses.Green Job training programs are being created to provide the community the opportunity for technical advancement

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