The University of California is a leader in the effort to combat global warming. UC has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2014 and to 1990 levels by 2020, and to achieving carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
UC is also a founding signatory of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment, a broad effort by the nation's higher education institutions to address global warming by tracking, reporting, and reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and by accelerating research and educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.