{"id":93,"date":"2025-04-06T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/?p=93"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:19:02","slug":"2021-proposing-a-climate-damage-charge-for-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/annual-reports\/2021-proposing-a-climate-damage-charge-for-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: Proposing a Climate Damage Charge for Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Summary<\/span>: At the suggestion of the Provost, CEAC spent this year on developing a proposal for a<br \/>\nClimate Damage Charge (CDC) to be applied to all air travel paid for by the College.<br \/>\nUntil recently, the levels of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from air travel were not<br \/>\nfully accounted for; once they were, it became clear that Scope 3 emissions were a larger<br \/>\ncomponent of Williams\u2019 carbon emissions than had been suspected, and one that in<br \/>\nrecent years has increased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/files\/2025\/04\/2021-CEAC-report.pdf\">Full report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a class=\"read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/annual-reports\/2021-proposing-a-climate-damage-charge-for-air-travel\/\">more &raquo;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ceac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}