With ambitious goals and specific initiatives to make progress toward those goals, the UMass Chan Medical School Sustainability and Climate Action Plan for 2021-2026 is now complete and ready for implementation. The five-year plan is the culmination of a lengthy public process that was led by the UMass Chan facilities team and included broad representation from campus constituencies. This plan builds on our achievements and creates opportunities for the campus to be a model for sustainable operations to address climate change and work to integrate sustainability into our ‘business as usual’ operations. The planning process began in 2019 with a survey to establish a baseline of the community’s awareness and concerns about sustainability and climate change. Several public meetings followed, after which a committee was formed with more than 40 people from various departments on campus and students, which worked for nearly a year to develop the five-year plan. Each focus area has a schedule of specific initiatives to foster progress toward the five-year goals. For example, on transportation, UMass Chan is now committed to reducing emissions of the vehicles it uses on campus by 50 percent. The community is also challenged to reduce emissions from commuting to campus. As a research-intensive campus with a clinical component, energy needs are significant, so the plan calls for continued implementation of an energy-use metering and validation program for specific buildings, as well as to increase energy conservation and recovery in all facilities. Regarding materials and resource management, the campus is committed to reducing the solid waste it generates by 20 percent