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SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES TABLE OF CONTENTS Annual Report on Sustainable Practices 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 A SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents A Message from the President ............................................ 1 The Campuses .................................................................. 24 UC Berkeley .................................................................................... 25 Summary: 2019 Progress Toward Policy Goals .................... 3 UC Davis ...........................................................................................29 UC Irvine ...........................................................................................33 UCLA ..................................................................................................35 2019 Awards ...................................................................... 4 UC Merced .......................................................................................41 UC Riverside ....................................................................................45 Timeline of Sustainability at UC .......................................... 5 UC San Diego ...................................................................................49 UC San Francisco ............................................................................53 UC Sustainable Practices Policies ........................................ 6 UC Santa Barbara .......................................................................... 57 Climate and Energy ..........................................................................7 UC Santa Cruz .................................................................................61 Systemwide Energy Programs ...............................................8 Investments ............................................................................ 11 UC Health ......................................................................... 65 Faculty and Research ............................................................ 12 UC Davis Health ............................................................................. 67 Green Building................................................................................ 14 UC Irvine Health ............................................................................ 68 Procurement ....................................................................................16 UCLA Health ....................................................................................70 Trademarks and Licensing ...................................................17 UC San Diego Health .................................................................... 72 Sustainable Building Operations and Labs.............................. 18 UCSF Health ....................................................................................74 Transportation ................................................................................ 19 UC Health ........................................................................................ 20 Additional UC Locations ................................................... 76 Water .................................................................................................21 Zero Waste ...................................................................................... 22 Agriculture and Natural Resources ........................................... 77 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ..................................79 Office of the President ................................................................. 82 More Information ............................................................. 85 Cover Photo: UC Irvine's Sustainability Program Manager for Student Housing Rachel Harvey. Credit: Corey Tull ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT A Message from the President As one of the world’s top research institutions, the University of California has an important leadership role in helping to bring people together to protect a rapidly changing — and warming — planet. In pursuing truth for the public good, we are able to provide cogent evidence to support better decision-making, helping to ensure a better future for us all. Nearly half a million children were born in California last year. This cohort includes those who will go on to become the University of California’s Class of 2040. I often worry about the world they will inherit. What is our responsibility to these children? I believe that the University of California has a moral obligation to help shape a better future for that class — and those that follow. As I ponder that responsibility, I also like to think about the nearly infinite possibility that our universities bring about. Humans have an amazing capacity for adaptation, progress and pushing beyond our current limitations. For the grand challenges we now face — the global climate crisis being chief among them — we need to tap into our deepest stores of ingenuity, resilience and creativity, and we must resolve to shift the trajectory of our future. As universities, we can — and should — act as agents of sustainability and environmental change. I see many signs of hope in the progress we have made in the past year alone that will have an impact not just at each of our UC locations, but within the state and globally. UC’s $13.6 billion endowment is now free of corporations that own fossil fuel reserves, for example. We have doubled our use of clean, renewable electricity over two years, and now use more “green power” than any other university in the country. And we lead U.S. universities in the amount of renewable electricity we generate on our campuses. This year, we also saw the UC Natural Reserve System partner with the National Park Service to establish two new reserves, Point Reyes Field Station at Point Reyes National Seashore and Lassen Field Station at Lassen Volcanic National Park, which will make public land available to research that can inform ecosystem management. We established a task force to examine herbicide use throughout our system. Additionally, we collectively exceeded our sustainable food spending goals, well ahead of our 2020 target. I am grateful for our students’ passion, and to our faculty and staff and entire communities working together to make these changes. We all share responsibility here. We can and we will make a difference. Janet Napolitano ANNUAL REPORT 2019 2 SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES PROGRESS TOWARD POLICY GOALS Summary: 2019 Progress Toward Policy Goals Climate and Energy Green Building GOAL PROGRESS GOAL PROGRESS Climate neutral UC has reduced its scope 1 and scope 2 LEED Silver minimum In 2019, UC added two new LEED Silver, by 2025 emissions 15% since the Carbon Neutrality for all new construction eight LEED Gold and three LEED Platinum Initiative was announced in 2013. This includes buildings. UC now has a total of 321 LEED a 3% reduction in scope 1 emissions and a building projects. 14% reduction in scope 2 emissions in 2018 compared to 2017. Certify at least one Eight out of 10 campuses and the Office LEED EBOM project of the President have at least one LEED 100% clean electricity The average carbon intensity of electricity on each campus EBOM certification, with a total of 43 by 2025 purchased by UC in 2018 was 417 pounds of across the system. CO e/MWh, lower than the statewide average. 2 Exceed the California In 2018-19, UC projects exceeded the Additionally, UC’s Wholesale Power Program building energy code California building energy code by an is continuing to provide 100% clean electricity by 20% average of 22%. to participating UC locations and systemwide on-site renewable generation capacity is approaching 50 megawatts. Water Procurement GOAL PROGRESS GOAL PROGRESS Reduce per capita Eight out of 10 campuses and the Office of the 25% green spend UC met the green spend goal for cleaning potable water use President have met or exceeded the 2020 goal. as a total percentage supplies, electronics and indoor furniture. 20% by 2020 and Seven out of 10 campuses and the Office of the of spend per Just over 7% of UC’s spend in office supplies 36% by 2025 President have met or exceeded the 2025 goal. product category was green. Transportation Sustainable Building Operations and Labs GOAL PROGRESS 50% of all new light- UC met this goal in 2018-19. GOAL PROGRESS duty fleet vehicles purchased to be zero- Assess three Every campus has assessed at least emission or hybrid research labs three research labs, for a total of 273 across the system. Campuses to reduce Over half of UC campuses have made progress their single-occupancy in reducing their single-occupancy vehicle vehicle commute rate commute rate. 10% by 2025 Waste Food GOAL PROGRESS GOAL PROGRESS 90% diversion by 2020 76% of campus waste (when including 20% of UC food All 10 campuses and 4 out of 5 health systems construction and demolition debris) was service spending from met or exceeded the 2020 goal. diverted from landfills in 2018-19. sustainable products by 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES 2019 AWARDS 2019 Awards UC locations received numerous awards for initiatives from greening health care to saving energy. UC Irvine earned a Platinum rating in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (AASHE STARS), and five UC campuses have current AASHE STARS Gold ratings. A complete list of this year’s awards can be found on the UC Office of the
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