In 2007, as a result of the Campus Climate Challenge, President Frohnmayer signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), committing the University of Oregon to be part of an effort by higher education institutions to address global warming by neutralizing their greenhouse gas pollution by 2050 and accelerating research and educational efforts to help re-stabilize the earth’s climate. As part of this commitment, the University of Oregon agreed to develop a Climate Action Plan that would detail how to reach these goals.

While helpful, the Climate Action Plan lacks a clear plan for reaching pollution neutrality and lacks any enforcement mechanisms. And so, ReVamp the Climate Action Plan will improve the Climate Action plan in the following ways:

1. Increase the number of intermediate steps in reaching goals (currently we have goals set for 2020 and 2050). We would like to see more short-term goals created for every 5 years which would be more easily tracked and manageable, and gives every student on campus a chance to see what the impact was during the time they attended the university, and how they may have helped to support it.
2. Create better policies around enforcement and implementation for faculty, staff, and student
3. Establish more aggressive emissions reduction goals.

• 2010: stabilize and begin to reduce GHG emissions
• 2015: achieve GHG levels 10% below 1990 levels
• 2020: achieve GHG levels 20% (currently at 10%) below 1990 levels
• 2025: achieve GHG levels 35% below 1990 levels
• 2030: achieve GHG levels 55% below 1990 levels
• 2035: achieve GHG levels 80% below 1990 levels
• 2040: Climate neutrality (currently our goal for 2050)