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Author(s): Jocelyn Chan, Rachel Chee, Kit Lan (Garrie) Chiu, Jessica Leung, James Yang
Faculty: Land and Food Systems: Andrew Riseman, Will Valley
Staff: Campus Sustainability: Lillian Zaremba
Course: LFS 450
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Report: BaselineInventory_UBCFoodSystem_GHGEmissions_FoodProductsAndActionPlan_group4_Meat_FINAL.pdf
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Author(s): Elizabeth Carney, Angela Chu, Nigel Koppert, Ka Ming Law, Kira Sharpe
Faculty: Land and Food Systems: Andrew Riseman, Will Valley
Staff: Campus Sustainability: Lillian Zaremba
Course: LFS 450
Themes:
Report: BaselineInventory_UBCFoodSystem_GHGEmissions_FoodProductsAndActionPlan_group3_NonMilkDairy_FINAL.pdf
On March 24, 2010, UBC President Stephen Toope announced aggressive new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets for UBC’s Vancouver campus. Toope made the announcement to delegates at the GLOBE 2010 conference in Vancouver, one of the world’s largest environmental conferences.
UBC has already met international targets established by the Kyoto Protocol for its core academic buildings, which required a six per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2012. The university will now aim to:
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