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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