University of California, Merced
PA-2: Sustainability Planning

The goal identified in the Sustainability Strategic Plan (SSP) is to impart the skills that advance social, economic, and environmental sustainability graduating the worlds sustainability leaders. A measurable objective or key performance indicator associated with curriculum includes monitoring the number of sustainability courses offered by the institution. The SSP also incorporates action items identified to achieve goal.

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The UC Merced Sustainability Engagement goal is to raise visibility, understanding, and knowledge of sustainability within and beyond the UC Merced community. A measurable objective or key performance indicator includes monitoring the number of sustainability engagement initiatives, programs, and events held throughout the campus and community. The SSP also incorporates action items identified to achieve goal.

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The campus climate action plan, water action plan, zero waste plan, and sustainability strategic plan have measurable objectives or key performance indicators associated with water use reduction, energy generation onsite, campus waste operations.

Sustainability Strategic Plan
https://ucmerced.app.box.com/file/267777087744?s=18gvx015icq9jxwlg2h3thqtqxeu8jpo

Climate Action Plan
https://ucmerced.app.box.com/file/330703793179?s=xt3uooc7pg1rs1m7ifjyi3zp91w63b1r

Zero Waste Plan
https://ucmerced.app.box.com/file/677564872968?s=andlfzjxwp24shu46pqpz5t5ii9rbjfk

Water Action Plan
https://ucmerced.app.box.com/file/355867303816?s=5zensyaa66m0p5cvxdsiiaoizf4helr8

The UC Merced campus Strategic Plan includes the following,
GOAL 3: Cultivate a Culture of Dignity and Respect for All.

Bold scholarship requires the campus to dismantle long-standing exclusionary practices in higher education. We aim to adopt research-grounded practices that drive our campus toward inclusive excellence. To do so, we will invest in the resources, and cultivate the skills, knowledge, and comprehensively inclusive and anti-racist attitudes necessary to ensure that each unit, department, division, and stakeholder clearly demonstrates their contribution to our Principles of Community.

One of the measures includes,
3.3 Build our collective capacity to remove structural barriers negatively impacting success through equity-informed administrative and educational decision-making.

The campus Strategic Plan also includes a Committmet to Sustainability.
Sustainability Commitment: Advance and implement an integrated campus sustainability strategic plan that showcases by 2030 how knowledge is generated and applied to effect institutional and societal change toward a just and sustainable environment and society for all communities present and future

https://strategicplan.ucmerced.edu/sites/strategicplan.ucmerced.edu/files/documents/UCM_StrategicPlan_2021-31_10212021.pdf

The UC Board of Regents adopted the UC Sustainability Practices Policy which includes the following statement:

The University of California is committed to responsible stewardship of resources and demonstrating leadership in sustainable business practices. The University’s locations should be living laboratories for sustainability, contributing to the research and educational mission of the University, consistent with available funding and safe operational practices.

Sustainability is a holistic ethic in social, environmental, and economic action.

UC Merced has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in campus operations. The campus achieved carbon neutrality in year 2018 and has continued to maintain its carbon neutral campus operations commitment. This goal is in alighment with second natures carbon commitment.

UC Merced Strategic Plan

https://strategicplan.ucmerced.edu/sites/strategicplan.ucmerced.edu/files/documents/UCM_StrategicPlan_2021-31_10212021.pdf