Penn State’s Local Climate Action Program (LCAP) is making a valuable impact beyond Pennsylvania’s borders, thanks in part to recent World Campus Energy and Sustainability Policy graduate, Joe Thompson.

Thompson, a northern California native now living in Orange County, was part of the first LCAP cohort facilitated by Penn State, from August 2022 through May 2023. During that time, he worked on creating a climate action plan for Doylestown, Pennsylvania. This fall, he was honored at a ceremony hosted by the San Diego chapter of the Climate Action Campaign (CAC), a nonprofit that advocates for creating and adopting climate action plans (CAPs).

The LCAP partners upper-level Penn State students with Pennsylvania’s local governments to determine a community’s contribution to climate change and help that government develop plans to draw down carbon emissions and adapt to a changing climate. Created by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2019, the LCAP was turned over to Penn State in 2022.

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