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Commitment to action on climate change
Bowdoin College signed onto the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007. The College followed through with a carbon neutrality plan released in 2009, with 2020 as the target year for carbon neutrality. According to the plan, general improvements to Maine's electricity grid will account for 7% of carbon reductions, commuting improvements will account for 1%, and the purchase of renewable energy credits will account for 41%. The College intends to reduce its own carbon emissions 28% by 2020, leaving the remaining 23% for new technologies and more renewable energy credits.

Coordinator of Sustainable Bowdoin Keisha Payson has acknowledged that achieving carbon neutrality by 2020 “might not be realistic.”

Energy Profile
Bowdoin purchases its electricity from Central Maine Power. The College buys renewable energy credits to offset all of the related carbon emissions. According to the EPA's Green Power Partnership, 5.8% of Bowdoin's total electricity usage comes from green power.

Bowdoin's facilities are heated by an on-campus heating plant which burns natural gas.

Energy Investments
In February 2013, the College announced that 1.4% percent of its endowment is invested in the fossil fuel industry. The disclosure was in response to students' calls to divest these holdings.