Sustainability Action Plan
The UW's Sustainability Action Plan lays out 10 targets and directs our sustainability actions.
Green Building Standard
The UW Green Building Standard ensures that all construction and renovation projects maximize energy and water efficiency, reduce carbon emissions - both operational and embodied, and align with principles of equity, ecological harmony and health & well-being.
Annual sustainability report to Board of Regents
- 2023 UW sustainability update
- 2022 UW sustainability update
- 2021 UW sustainability update
- 2020 UW sustainability update
Energy Renewal Program
- Energy Renewal Program Introduction (PDF, 800 kb)
- UW ERP Phase 1 - Baseline Assessment (PDF, 8.1 MB)
- UW ERP Phase 2 - Project Identification (PDF, 8.9 MB)
- UW ERP Phase 2 - Appendices (PDF, 18.7 MB)
- UW ERP Phase 3 - Implementation Plan (PDF, 17.5 MB)
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
UW Governance
- 2024 Faculty Senate Class C Resolution, "Concerning Timetable for Climate Crisis Finance and Decarbonization" (pdf)
- Executive Order No. 13, "Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability" (adopted 2012)
Reports
- Embodied Carbon Reduction (2023)
- Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS) report (2022)
- UW Climate Action Plan (2010)
- 2017 UW Sustainability report
- 2014 UW Sustainability report
- Climate Action Strategy for Transportation
- UW Recycling annual reports
- UW Master Plans
- Transportation Services reports
- Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee (ESAC) 2007 annual report (pdf)
- ESAC 2006 annual report (pdf)
- ESAC 2005 annual report (pdf)