The Commitment
Rice University is a signatory of the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment, and has set a target to become carbon neutral as a university by the year 2030. Rice adopted its first Climate Action Plan in September 2013, with fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013) serving as the baseline by which to measure progress.
Carbon Footprint
A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon emissions associated with an individual, business, product, university, etc. Some aspects of a carbon footprint are easy to calculate from readily available data. Others require estimates.
The bulk of Rice’s carbon footprint comes from energy, specifically electricity and natural gas. Below is a summary of Rice’s carbon footprint.
