Summary: At the suggestion of the Provost, CEAC spent this year on developing a proposal for a
Climate Damage Charge (CDC) to be applied to all air travel paid for by the College.
Until recently, the levels of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from air travel were not
fully accounted for; once they were, it became clear that Scope 3 emissions were a larger
component of Williams’ carbon emissions than had been suspected, and one that in
recent years has increased.

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