The Bren School hosted a climate summit in conjunction with the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS) and Campus Climate Neutral (CCN). Numerous scientists, business leaders, organizational leaders, students, university faculty and administrators, government leaders, and community activists drawn mainly from California, but also nationally and internationally, participated in an intensive all day dissemination of information regarding climate change and related environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural issues connected to climate change. Johann Sabbath (UCSB CSSC) rocked a brief informational PowerPoint presentation before the entire summit regarding the role of universities in climate neutrality and how the California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) can play organizational, institutional, and political conduit for sustainability initiatives such as the Bren School's Climate Campus Climate Neutral (CNN) project to be manifested and exported within and throughout the University of California.

Beginning this spring a group of approximately 5 Bren graduate students will commence systematically hammering out the scientific, technological, and economic 'nuts and bolts' of how UCSB can become climate neutral in particular given timeframes. The Bren project duration is 12-18 months. The CSSC at UCSB and the Bren CCN team have established partnership to facilitate collaboration with UCSB undergraduate students and pertinent campus institutions, councils, committees, administrators, organizations, etc. This Bren CSSC working partnership is established to see that all pertinent resources at UCSB are leveraged to most effectively complete the project and implement it's conclusions at UCSB, initially in legislative agreement with pertinent UCSB decision making individuals and bodies.

The completion of the Bren CCN project will yield an effectively exportable model process of how climate neutrality can be achieved at other university campuses and systems.

This premier CSSC/Bren partnership represents the first of potentially infinite collaborative partnerships in an evolving mutually reciprocal relationship between the CSSC and UCSB's Bren School, one of the Nation's leading academic environmental institutions.

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