The primary charge to the Task Force is to develop an Indiana University-wide Climate Action Plan by 2025 to enable Indiana University to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2040. (The IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses will complete their climate action plans by 2023. Other campuses will need to complete their climate action plan(s) prior to the completion of the University-wide Climate Action Plan by the end of 2025.)
To that end, the Task Force shall:
- Support the IU and IUPUI Offices of Sustainability in their coordination, communication, and reporting of Climate Action Plan efforts across all IU campuses, including the efforts of the regional Campus Resilience Committee;
- Leverage the expertise and contributions of the Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) and all sustainability-related entities across IU, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators;
- Coordinate with all units that have management over emission sources;
- Solicit input from all IU constituencies, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators;
- Examine, assist, and advise with developing an Indiana University-wide Climate Action Plan, including a definition of carbon neutrality, to be drafted by the IU and UPUI Offices of Sustainability;
- Include in the Climate Action Plan a blueprint to ensure implementation of the plan by the IU and IUPUI Offices of Sustainability and other relevant units;
- Update UFC annually on progress with developing the IU-wide Climate Action Plan; and
- Ensure that the Climate Action Plan specifies mandatory, regular biennial progress reports on the implementation of the Plan, and reviews and revisions of the Plan at least every five years, to be completed under the auspices of the IU and IUPUI Offices of Sustainability.