Beyond Climate-Neutral Planning Strategy

From ClimateNetworkWiki

The following are strategies for the Beyond Climate-Neutral Planning pillar of the Go Beyond Project.

Contents 1 Implementation Strategies 2 Strategic Outreach 3 Measures of Success 4 Timeline

Implementation Strategies

• Encouraging schools to sign and/or implement the Statement of Action
  • Working with administrative bodies such as the Universities’ Presidents Council or existing sustainability committees (top-down)
  • Working with campus organizations, student unions, and youth leaders to educate about or facilitate the planning process (bottom-up)
• Speaker series that pair motivational or informative guest speakers with training workshops on collaborative planning
  • Registry of speakers available based on region
  • Train-the-trainer model for students, enabling them to give interactive workshops on collaborative planning to their peers
• Online Community as platform for sharing resources and for facilitating planning processes

Strategic Outreach

• The University President’s Council
• The College President’s Council
• Board of Governors
• Finance and facilities departments
• Ministry of Advanced Education

Measures of Success

• Presentations to institutional bodies
• Circulation of planning guide
• Courses working on BCN Planning
• Schools signed on to Statement of Action
• Schools with multi-stakeholder planning committees
• GHG Baselines in progress or completed
• Collaborative planning processes underway
• Strategies/initiatives for ‘scope 3’ emissions
• Schools using Online Community or Wiki for planning
• Campus trainings
• Number of students trained to give presentations

Timeline

August:

• Development of BCN Planning Guide, BCN Solutions, Presentations and Workshops
• Delivery of workshops and presentations at the Go Beyond Youth Action Gathering

September:

• Feedback from the University President’s Council and other stakeholders as to the content of the guide
• Presentation to the University President’s Council and push for signing of new universities
• Pesentation to UNBC

October/November

• Presentations to BoGs and other decision-makers on BCN Planning

November/December

• Evaluation and review of program, resources and strategy