NCEAS Partners with IEE to Launch TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project
On June 2, University of California President Janet Napolitano and environmentalist Tom Steyer officially announced the TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project while serving on a panel at the 2016 Clean Energy Ministerial Meeting in San Francisco organized by the U.S. Department of Energy. The TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project was launched by UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) in partnership with NCEAS with a $300,000 gift from the TomKat Foundation, established by Tom Steyer and Kathryn Taylor. The TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project seeks to develop and deploy solutions to the challenges of climate change by capitalizing on the vast resources and research of the entire UC system, to advance the University’s continued commitment to carbon neutrality and sustainability.
“The University of California is a global leader in developing the bold, innovative solutions that will solve the climate crisis. I’m proud to support UC Santa Barbara’s leadership on clean energy and UC’s goal of achieving zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.”
– Tom Steyer, Environmentalist
The TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project will build upon the NCEAS synthesis working group model. NCEAS issued the first TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project Call for Working Group Proposals in March which were due May 2, 2016. Selected proposals will be announced in June.
More information about the TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project