Hard-to-quantify emissions are the next frontier for Stanford sustainability goals

As part of the Long-Range Vision, Stanford committed to bringing greehouse gas emissions down by 80% from the 2011 peak by 2025, a goal the university will reach when a second solar facility comes online in 2022.
Apr 20 2021
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Stanford is expecting to achieve 80% reduction in emissions from campus operations by 2022 when a new solar facility comes online. Now, Stanford is beginning to measure Scope 3 emissions, the indirect emissions from such things as growing and transporting food, travel, investments and producing the goods we buy. Sally Benson, professor of energy resources engineering and graduate student, Rebecca Grekin, are working on a tool to make quantifying Scope 3 emissions easier.