Data and code for "Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education"

Code and data for the paper "Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education" File descriptions: 'HEI_analysis_OneEarth.Rmd' is the code with improved annotation and colorblind-friendly figures. All other data files are provided as excel and csv for convenience. 'working_master_data' contains data from the Second Nature reporting platform on emissions by category for each institution analyzed in the paper (measured in metric tons). All adjustments necessary to fill in the data gaps in this file are documented at the beginning of 'HEI_analysis'. 'offsets' contains data on the type(s) of offsets purchased by each school in their carbon neutral year (measured in metric tons). This data was assembled from a variety of sources which are documented at the beginning of 'HEI_analysis'. 'carbon_neutral_years' contains yearly counts of higher education neutrality goals that were reported to Second Nature as of November 2020.