The University of Michigan
President’s
Commission
on
Carbon Neutrality hosted a
community forum to speak on
the progress of the commission
in strategizing how to tackle
carbon
neutrality
and
to
address community members’
concerns
regarding
the
University’s lack of action. The
event consisted of two parts: a
public forum and question and
answer session, and then small
group discussions with leaders
of different internal analysis
teams
of
the
commission.
The town hall was open
to all students, faculty and
community members, and over
100 people attended.
The President’s Commission
on Carbon Neutrality was
announced
in
February
with the goal of providing
recommendations
to
the
University on how to achieve
carbon neutrality through the
collaboration of students and
faculty. Last semester they held
two town halls.
LSA sophomore Ari Cohen
told The Daily he attended the
event because as a Program in
the Environment student, he
wants to see how the University
is planning to combat climate
change.
“I’m
keenly
interested
in
topics
related
to
the
environment,”
Cohen
said.
“And clearly a pressing matter
of today is climate change and
I’d like to see the University
take a stronger initiative on
combating that. This is clearly
one way in which they’re doing
that and I’d like to be informed
and involved if possible.”
The panel speakers were the
co-chairs of the commission:
Jennifer Haverkamp, director
of the Graham Sustainability
Institute,
and
Stephen
Forrest, professor of electrical
engineering
and
computer
science.
Haverkamp
began
by
explaining how the commission
has been tasked with a difficult
goal and they need the help
and input of all community
members to achieve it.
“The challenge is massive,
but so is the climate crisis that
we’re facing, so we have all
thrown ourselves into this,”
Haverkamp said. “But there
are many dimensions, many
stakeholders. It’s complex. This
is a long-term effort that we’ve
embarked upon and we need
an
engagement
from
everybody, all segments
of the University, to be
successful.”
Forrest
discussed
the processes by which
the
commission
is
formulating
their
recommendations
and
strategies. He said the
commission is focusing
on scope 1 emissions,
which
are
direct
emissions from owned
or
controlled
sources,
and scope 2 emissions,
which
are
indirect
emissions
from
the
generation of purchased
energy,
according
to
the
Greenhouse
Gas
Protocol.
Forrest
then
noted
how
the
commission
is
working
on
scope
3
emissions,
are
all
indirect emissions not
included
in
scope
2,
which includes students
living off campus. He said
numerical data has been
a key factor in creating
recommendations
and
strategies to combat scope 3
emissions.
“We have a tremendous
number of students scattered
among
the
communities,”
Forrest said. “That’s one of
the things that’s even harder.
So, how do we get to those
problems? And in what order
do we get to them? Well, scope
1 and scope 2 are pretty much
top of the line. Scope 3 is much
more difficult. The way we get
to them is by measuring and
having quantifiable methods
for
determining
what
we
are emitting in each of those
categories … if we can measure
something, we can get it done.”
Forrest and Haverkamp then
addressed questions from the
audience. One attendee asked
how the commission planned
on
incorporating
energy
justice and equity into their
recommendations.
Haverkamp
said
the
members of the commission
are making sure to keep in
mind issues of environmental
justice as they do their work
every day.
“The charge that we have
given to each of these analysis
teams
is
to
include
the
consideration of justice issues
as they do their research and
develop their recommendations
to us,” Haverkamp said. “That
includes also reaching out to
communities that are usually
underrepresented
in
these
conversations. We will work on
these issues together.”
The next question referred
to how the University of
California
school
system
recently divested their entire
endowment
from
fossil
fuels. The audience member
asked what is preventing the
University of Michigan from
divesting.
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