Getting Into Neutral: Climate Policy and the University

William Shobe

No 2008-04, Working Papers from Center for Economic and Policy Studies

Abstract: On March 11, 2008 the University of Virginia Faculty Senate voted in favor of having the university take steps to make it climate neutral. This paper examines whether such a policy is feasible, and further whether pursuing a policy of climate neutrality is likely the best way to spend university resources, if the goal is to reduce the university’s carbon footprint. A revised version of this paper was published as Going Green: The inconvenient truth about U.Va.\'s carbon neutrality initiative; Virginia Policy Review (Vol. 2, No. 1) September-October 2008.

Keywords: carbon nuetrality; university; Virginia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q4 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2008-05-01
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Note: A modified version of this paper was published in the Virginia Policy Review (Vol. 2, No. 1, September-October 2008) as: Going Green: The inconvenient truth about U.Va.\'s carbon neutrality initiative.
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Published as Going Green: The inconvenient truth about U.Va.\'s carbon neutrality initiative; Virginia Policy Review (Vol. 2, No. 1) September-October 2008

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