Credit Lester Graham / Michigan Radio
The University of Michigan has a draft plan to reach carbon neutrality. The President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality’s recommendations call for the university’s campuses to reduce emissions and to use carbon offsets to become carbon neutral by 2025 and reduce total U-M emissions to net-zero by 2040.
“My first impression is that this is the type of thing that can move the University of Michigan from a laggard to a leader,” said Mike Shriberg, the Great Lakes Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation. He’s been critical of the university for taking so long to do something. Shriberg formerly was the Education Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the university.