Decarbonization
The reduction or elimination of carbon dioxide emissions from a process such as manufacturing or the production of energy.
What is decarbonization?
UCSC’s projected revenue for the 2025-26 fiscal year is approximately this amount.
What is 1 billion?
These are the three types of waste bins found on campus.
What are recycling, compost, and landfill?
Actions taken to reduce the severity of climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions
What is mitigation?
She was the author of Silent Spring and the namesake of College Eight.
Who is Rachel Carson?
UCSC plans to be 90% decarbonized by this year.
What is 2045?
According to the sustainability office, this percentage of single-use plastics is eliminated on campus.
What is 90%?
UCSC currently ranks this place out of the ten UC campuses in waste diversion.
What is 8th place?
The unequal impact of environmental harm on marginalized communities due to historical and societal inequalities.
What is environmental justice?
Students pay this amount per quarter to fund sustainability programs on campus.
What is $6?
Replacing fossil fuel energy on campus will cost this much.
What is $700 million?
This percentage of new campus vehicles is electric.
What is 24%?
UCSC aims to reduce waste generation to 2015–16 levels by this year.
What is 2030?
The point at which a small change in climate will trigger large, irreversible environmental damage.
What is a tipping point?
UCSC implemented its plastic bag ban this year.
What is 2019?
This campus area is expected to be the most energy-intensive and difficult to decarbonize.
What is Science Hill?
In 2024, UCSC eliminated approximately this many metric tons of carbon dioxide.
What is 30,000?
This term describes the weight of discarded materials divided by the number of users producing waste.
What is waste generation rate?
The ability of an ecosystem to withstand and recover from climate-related disruptions.
What is resilience?
This 2003 action plan was created to obtain student input on campus sustainability.
What is the Blueprint for a Sustainable Campus?
Name one clean energy source that will be used to replace fossil fuels on campus.
What is heat recovery / heat pump / electric vehicles?
The largest proposed campus power plant would mitigate this percentage of Scope 1 emissions
What is 64%?
UCSC produces approximately this many pounds of waste per user per day.
What is 0.84 pounds?
The total of greenhouse gases emitted by an individual, organization, or product.
What is carbon footprint?
Name one goal from UCSC’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.
What is build communities of care and resilience/ decarbonize campus to build a fossil-free future / steward the land and water / advance a circular economy in the consumption cycle / manage Sustainability Office programs and resources?