A Climate Action Plan documents an institution’s greenhouse gas emissions and the plans they have to reduce them. In 2006, today’s guest helped launch the effort to create a Climate Action Plan for University of Washington, a project that would ultimately take over three years, cataloging the massively complex infrastructure that emits greenhouse gasses across the institution.

This week on NACUBO In Brief, energy and climate policy analyst Roel Hammerschlag joins us to share the experience of creating and implementing the Climate Action Plan, outlining the benefits of  the marginal abatement cost curve in defining the most effective projects to take on, and the political hurdles the team was required to leap to get those projects approved and completed.