To accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, the University of California has adopted new, 加强气候行动目标，优先考虑直接减排, 限制碳补偿的使用，并使正规欧洲杯买球网站的气候目标与加利福尼亚州的目标保持一致.
新目标建立在UC在减少温室气体排放和向清洁能源过渡方面已经取得的重大成就的基础上, carbon-free electricity, said University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D.
“气候变化是我们这个时代最紧迫的挑战之一, 这项新政策扩大了正规欧洲杯买球网站在应对危机方面的领导地位,” President Drake said. “它反映了当前最好的科学，并使大学雄心勃勃的新目标与加利福尼亚州制定的目标保持一致。. 它还为UC所在地提供了灵活性，可以根据其具体情况和挑战制定脱碳计划.”
正规欧洲杯买球网站现在的碳排放量比2009年降低了30%, despite significant growth across the University. 这些减少是每个校园共同努力的结果, 包括为正规欧洲杯买球网站节省了4亿多美元能源成本的能效项目, 并部署了100多个校园太阳能项目.
正规欧洲杯买球网站甚至经营着自己的电力公司, allowing it to deliver clean, 以低于市场价格向其七个校区提供无碳电力. By 2025, 所有10个校区和6个学术健康中心将使用100%无碳电力，并将加快努力消除剩余的温室气体排放源.
The new climate goals capitalize on those achievements, said David Phillips, UC’s associate vice president for Capital Programs, Energy and Sustainability.
“UC在提高能源效率和向可再生和无碳电力过渡方面取得了重大成功,” Phillips said. “未来最大的挑战是逐步淘汰天然气供暖, cooling and electricity generation. Under UC’s refined climate action policy, 鼓励校园紧急脱碳校园中央工厂的运作, which are the primary source of natural gas combustion.”
他指出，正规欧洲杯买球网站剩余的碳排放中约有80%来自天然气燃烧.
“正规欧洲杯买球网站在直接使其运营的所有部分脱碳方面表现出雄心勃勃的领导力, not just the lowest hanging fruit. Eliminating natural gas emissions, and sharing the lessons learned along the way, 会给全国其他大学和其他部门带来很大的好处吗." said Tim Carter, president of Second Nature, 一个支持高等教育部门在气候变化方面发挥领导作用的非营利组织.
去年秋天，德雷克校长创建了“通往无化石正规欧洲杯买球网站特别工作组”, under the purview of the Global Climate Leadership Council, 并责成成员召集包括学生在内的利益相关者, 教职员工和管理人员-在整个大学加快正规欧洲杯买球网站脱碳努力的最佳道路上.
The refined climate policy grew out of those efforts, 在整个系统的可持续发展官员的广泛投入下, 并经可持续发展指导委员会审核和批准, which oversees UC’s Sustainable Practices Policy, before being authorized by UC President Drake.
新的政策目标取代了正规欧洲杯买球网站2013年的碳中和倡议，并为正规欧洲杯买球网站校园和学术健康中心制定了一个框架和时间表，以在2045年之前完全脱碳, 同时到2030年逐步大幅减少温室气体排放, 2035, and 2040.
国家资助的脱碳研究已经在所有10个校区进行, including six affiliated academic health centers, that will inform strategies, emission targets and location-specific climate action plans.
菲利普斯和正规欧洲杯买球网站的其他领导人预计，一些校园将在2045年的最后期限之前实现脱碳目标. 事实上，电气化和脱碳项目已经在正规欧洲杯买球网站的几个校区进行:
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正规欧洲杯买球网站伯克利分校正在更换其以天然气为燃料的热电联产工厂, which supplies 90 percent of campus energy, with a clean energy microgrid. The first phase is on-track to be completed by 2028 其中包括一个新的电气化供暖和制冷中央工厂, distribution to the most energy intensive buildings, 建筑能源碳排放量减少70%.
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Through a multiyear project known as the Big Shift, UC Davis is moving from fossil-fuels 清洁能源和更高效的供暖系统.
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The Decarbonization and Electrification Task Force 正规欧洲杯买球网站圣克鲁斯分校的研究人员正在努力确定到2030年减少第一类和第二类碳排放的具体行动, ideally to zero, 使用当前或新兴技术，并利用已经确定并正在进行的战略和项目.
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Since its founding in 2005, UC Merced has been green from the ground up, with every campus building LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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UC Irvine Health is on track to open an all-electric medical center — the first of its kind in the U.S. It will fully open by 2025.
