Resources for the 2021 Climate Action Plan
Portland Community College Resources
Climate Action
- Climate Action Equity Guide
- PCC’s Second Nature Greenhouse Gas Reports
- Un Sustainable Development Goals
- The Sustainable Development Goals Report, 2019
- The President’s Climate Leadership Commitments
- The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Climate Action Solutions from Second Nature’s Solutions Center
Scope 1 and 2
- Renewable Energy at PCC
- 2020 Strategic Energy Management Plan
- PCC’s Design and Construction Standards
Scope 3
- Transportation at PCC
- PCC’s Sustainability Guidelines for Purchasing
- Integrated Pest Management at PCC
- PCC’s 2019 Integrated Weed Management Plan
- PCC’s Solid Waste Management Policy
- Sustainable Serviceware Options at PCC
- Waste, Recycling, and Composting at PCC
- Strategic Food Waste Reduction at PCC
- PCC’s Design and Construction Standards
Education and Outreach
- Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network
- Sustainable Practices for Academics and Resources Council
- Student Sustainability Hub
- Sustainability Focus Award
- Sustainability Courses at PCC
- The PCC Sustainability Office has created a Climate Action Plan Update Assignment that faculty may use in their classes to create opportunities for students to provide feedback and engage in this process. PCC 2020 Climate Action Plan Update Assignment
Learn more about Climate Change
PCC Library’s student research guide on climate change
Curriculum, Community Based Learning, and Available Data
The Sustainability Office is available for classroom visits upon request. In addition, we have a PCC-based module on Climate Change that we used during the Climate Action Plan. We collaborate with PCC Teaching and Learning Staff at PCC to offer community-based learning opportunities and internships.
Raw data is also available. Please email sustainability@pcc.edu. Here are a few examples of what’s available.
- Raw energy data and building square footage information by campus
- Raw greenhouse gas data sheet by scope for Scopes 1 and 2
- Greenhouse gas information by type (e.g. direct fuel purchases, natural gas consumption, electric consumption, water consumption, purchases, and commuting)
- Renewable energy production
- Greenhouse Gas emissions data as reported to Second Nature
- Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Resiliency
- City of Portland 2015, Climate Planning Through Equity
- Portland Clean Energy Fund
- Coalition of Communities of Color
- Oregon Environmental Council, Resources for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Environmental Justice: Best Practices for Oregon’s Natural Resource Agencies (State of Oregon Environmental Justice Task Force)
- Second Nature Resilience
- Urban Adaptation Assessment (UAA)
- Climate Resilience in Urban Campuses and Communities (CRUX), Portland State University/City of Portland (2015-2018)
- City of Portland Preparation Strategy: Risk and Vulnerabilities Assessment
Equity Tools
- PCC Take 5 Critical Race Theory Toolkit from PCC’s Office of Equity and Inclusion
- Fist of 5 Voting Method from PCC’s Office of Equity and Inclusion
- PCC’s Equitable Decision Making Framework from PCC’s Office of Equity and Inclusion
- PCC Climate Action Plan Equity Guide
- Student-funded Ecosocial Justice Grant
- Multnomah County Equity and Empowerment Lens
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Racial Equity and Social Justice Tools
- Critical Race Theory
- City of Portland, Oregon’s Climate Action Plan Equity Considerations
- Second Nature’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Accessibility Toolkit, Higher Education’s Role in Advancing Climate Justice
- Case studies on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Accessibility in Climate Action Planning from Second Nature
- The City of Portland’s Racial Equity Toolkit
Public Policy
Federal Government (Executive Order)
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on December 8, 2021, calling for the federal government to generate zero emissions by 2050.
Among other things, the order sets the following goals around federal procurement, construction, and operations:
- 100% of the federal government’s new vehicles must be zero-emission by 2035.
- All new light-duty vehicles must be zero-emission by 2027.
- 65% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels
- 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030 (on a net annual basis); 50% must be 24/7 carbon-free electricity
- Net-zero emissions buildings by 2045
- Net-zero emissions from federal procurement
State of Oregon Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Goals (Oregon Legislature)
- HB 3543 (2007): Arrests Greenhouse Gas emissions growth. Goals include reducing 10% below 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and 75% below 1990 levels by 2050.
- HB 2620 (2010): Requires that public entities spend 1.5% of the total contract price of public improvements for new construction or major renovations of public buildings on renewable technologies.
- SB 24 (2015): Removes previous clean fuels sunset date of December 2015 and authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to issue regulations regarding clean fuels.
- SB 838 (2007) and SB 1547 (2016): Oregon Renewable Energy Act of 2007: Establishes a renewable portfolio standard for electric utilities and retail electricity suppliers. SB 1547 updated the standard to raise the target to 50% renewable energy by 2040, which includes both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power. Furthermore, Portland General Electric has pledged to end the use of coal in Oregon by 2035.
- HB 3612: Oregon State agencies are directed to reduce energy consumption to 20% below 2000 levels by 2015. (Does not apply to PCC)
Oregon Governor’s Office
- Executive Order No. 20-04 (March 10, 2020)
City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Portland Metro
- 2015 City of Portland and Multnomah County Climate Action Plan
- Portland Metro’s Climate Smart Strategy (Portland Metro’s strategy to reduce the region’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks by at least 20% by 2035.)