A faculty task force has scolded UC San Diego for its carbon emissions and has recommended dozens of ideas for reducing that footprint.
For years, UC San Diego has been out front in forecasting the impact of climate change, earning the school international praise.
The report also says the school should be more aggressive than the University of California system, which is trying to make its campuses carbon neutral by 2025. • Replace the school’s $30-million cogeneration plant with a cleaner, more efficient generating system. It’s now mainly run with fossil fuels. Campus officials say major changes can’t be made until after 2032, when the plant’s debt service is paid off.
UCSD Professor Adam Aron joined other climate activists in a protest at Rep. Susan Davis’ office in San Diego on March 19, 2019.• Make most campus vehicles all-electric by 2025. Just over one-third of the existing 1,053 vehicles run on fossil fuels. The task force was created in October by UCSD’s Academic Senate, which is responsible for everything from approving courses and setting admission requirements to offering advice on the budget and tending to the welfare of students.The report was delivered in February and is now being reviewed by the full Senate. Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said he’ll withhold comment until the review is complete.Some of the material in the report will seem familiar.
Charles David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography created a monitoring system that revealed that much of the carbon dioxide that makes it into the atmosphere comes from fossil fuels used by humans. The achievements are a source of pride at UCSD, but they don’t necessarily mean that the university will quickly move on the task force report.
Jacob Sutherland, news editor of The Guardian, a campus newspaper, agrees, saying, “You usually don’t see political movements start at UCSD. When they happen, they’re usually part of some larger thing.”
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