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Climate Risks and Resilience at Dickinson College: Strategies for Continuity of Operations
- Dickinson College (PA)
Prepared for Building Climate Resilience at Dickinson and in Central Pennsylvania, an initiative of Dickinson College, the Borough of Carlisle, and Cumberland County, PA, as part of Dickinson’s Baird Sustainability …
- Posted April 3, 2025
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How Can Higher Ed Leverage Its Strengths to Support our Communities to Act on the Climate Crisis
- University of Calgary (AB)
How can universities and colleges leverage their strengths to support our communities to act on the climate crisis? This presentation will share insights from Mobilizing Alberta- a five-year project with …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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It's All Connected! Climate Change, Social Justice, Basic Needs Support and Student Leadership
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Portland Community College (OR)
Implementing a new student leadership development program during a global pandemic, national uprising due to political and social unrest and climate-fueled fires was challenging, to say the least. However this …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Climate Action Planning, Different Approaches, Common Themes, and Resources
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
This learning lab highlights climate action planning, stakeholder identification & engagement ideas, hazard & impact mapping, resources, etc. The Universities of Wisconsin include 13 public universities across the state. Eight …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Advancing Climate Action: Reflections from UBC's Experience
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
This session offers a comprehensive overview of the Climate Emergency Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Framework developed by the Sustainability Hub at the University of British Columbia (UBC). This framework …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Reaching for the High Hanging Fruit: Climate Action After 80% Reduction
- Stanford University (CA)
In 2023 Stanford achieved a 80% reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions based on a 2011 baseline and is now focusing on the remaining 20% through a comprehensive …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities
- United Negro College Fund (GA)
Released at the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, "The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities" explores the current activities and future aspirations of Historically Black Colleges and …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Insights from UBC's Climate Action Journey
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
UBC has made strong commitments to be a global leader on sustainability, with climate action specifically seen as a strategic priority. The university’s Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP2030) builds on …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Next Generation of Higher Ed Climate Action: A Presentation and Discussion with Second Nature
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Second Nature (MA)
Since 2006, Second Nature has been the organization facilitating appropriate guidance for climate action in the higher education sector. The Climate Leadership Commitments and the network of schools implementing this …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Next Generation Climate Goal Leadership and Offset Strategy
- Harvard University (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
Join senior sustainability leaders to explore how leadership in climate goals and offset strategies have evolved over time, and take part in defining what leadership and transparency around this looks …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Why Aren’t Faculty More Engaged on the Climate Crisis? (Spoiler: It might be the tenure process)
- Smith College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Do you ever wish that more faculty at your institution were working on sustainability? Many leaders have called for improved support for engaged scholarship(ES) to better connect the academy with …
- Posted Feb. 20, 2025
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Binghamton 2 Degrees: Building Community Resilience Through Collaborative Action
- Binghamton University (NY)
Binghamton 2 Degrees is a transformative initiative uniting Binghamton University and the greater Binghamton community to envision a resilient future under the looming threat of two degrees of warming. Through …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2025
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Holistic Inclusive Education On Climate Change
- The American College of Greece (Aghia Paraskevi)
The American College of Greece (ACG) is committed to advancing climate action and sustainability through an inclusive, multi-faceted approach to education. Under the umbrella of Holistic Inclusive Education on Climate …
- Posted Jan. 24, 2025
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Northeastern's Climate Justice Action Plan
- Northeastern University (MA)
Northeastern University’s Climate Justice Action Plan (CJAP) is a comprehensive, forward-thinking initiative designed to integrate climate justice principles into the institution’s sustainability framework. At the heart of this plan is …
- Posted Jan. 24, 2025
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CSUN’s CA Climate Action Corps Workforce Development Service Program
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
The California State University, Northridge (CSUN) CA Climate Action Corps (CCAC) program is part of California’s statewide effort to address climate change through community-focused action. Launched in 2021, the program …
- Posted Jan. 24, 2025
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Net Zero on Campus: A Guide and Accompanying Toolkit for Universities and Colleges to Accelerate Climate Action Worldwide
- AASHE (MA)
- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NY)
Universities are uniquely positioned to be agents of change as living labs, testing innovations and educating on tools and resources in their institutions, communities, and beyond. With university net zero …
- Posted Dec. 18, 2024
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Climate Action Clinic at UNH: Training Carbon Management Professionals in Collaboration with Community Organizations
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
The Climate Action Clinic is a high-impact learning opportunity that builds off UNH's decades-long role supporting carbon footprinting and climate action by other organizations--leveraging the expertise rooted in UNH’s own …
- Posted Oct. 24, 2024
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Climate Action Unbound: A New Curricular Model Driving Institutional Change
- Hampshire College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Equipping students with both the knowledge and skills to be effective change agents is essential to solving the climate crisis. The inaugural Climate Action Semester Unbound at Hampshire College offered …
- Posted Sept. 20, 2024
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Climate change poster installation at 4TH SPACE
- Concordia University
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time, and an important priority for the entire Concordia University community.
In keeping with Concordia’s ongoing engagement in sustainability …
- Posted Aug. 8, 2024
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People for the Planet Festival
- Bentley University (MA)
In spring 2024, Bentley's Office of Sustainability hosted a People for the Planet festival. This gathering provided a space for the Bentley Community to come together to enjoy art, music, …
- Posted July 29, 2024
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Initiatives that deliver our #1 in Climate Action ranking
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
The University of Tasmania has embedded the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across everything that we do, including making them a focus on discussions at our Orientation and Open Day events. …
- Posted July 11, 2024
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The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint
- United Negro College Fund (GA)
Released at the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, “The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities” explores the current activities and future aspirations of Historically Black Colleges and …
- Posted March 19, 2024
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Climate Leadership Network Networking Meeting
- Second Nature (MA)
Attendees representing campuses that have signed the Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments and those interested in learning about the Climate Leadership Network will hear from Second Nature staff about recent accomplishments, …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Emotions: From Anxiety to Action
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- Williams College (MA)
- The All We Can Save Project
Eco anxiety is real and pervasive. Students, faculty and community members often struggle with the overwhelming impacts of climate change, species loss, and structural environmental inequities. Sustainability practitioners in Higher …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Action Implementation: Governance Approaches for Climate Implementation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
Colleges and universities across the globe have set very ambitious targets for climate action ranging from steep mitigation goals of zero carbon, to ensuring a resilient campus and preparing for …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Where’s the Easy Button? Rolling Up Your Sleeves & Advancing Climate Action Through Electrification
- Columbia University (NY)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- Wendel
Renewables, check; food systems, working on it; conservation programs, being advanced; electric vehicles, in route. What? We still have another 40% of our footprint to decrease (even without embodied carbon)? …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Action Simulation: How Will You Solve the Climate Crisis
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The highly interactive, team-based Climate Action Simulation will immerse participants for two full hours. The Climate Action Simulation enables people to gain insights into the factors that affect climate change …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Fostering Collaborative Action to Meet Voluntary and Regulatory Climate Goals
- Harvard University (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- PowerOptions, Inc (MA)
The Cities of Cambridge and Boston have recently passed some of the most advanced building-level climate action targets in the country. This field report-style panel will discuss and explore the …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Strategic Planning for Equitable Climate Mitigation
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Robert Morris University (PA) (PA)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
As a group of colleges and universities dedicated to reducing their individual and collective climate impacts, the Higher Education Climate Consortium of Pittsburgh (HECC) has been convening for 15 years. …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Photos of Brandeis' Year of Climate Action
- Brandeis University (MA)
For supporting the SCI 2023 publication, photos of Brandeis' Year of Climate Action
- Posted Sept. 3, 2023
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Cli Fi, Sci Fi, and the Culture of Sustainability
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- AASHE (MA)
Climate fiction, or cli-fi, is a form of literature that features a changed/changing climate or global warming as part of the character, setting, or plot of a novel or short …
- Posted June 28, 2023
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Bottom-up approach: the participation of Fridays For Future in the climate emergency declaration in the University of Salamanca
- Universidad de Salamanca
Purpose: This study aims to describe the process leading the climate emergency declaration (CED) at the University of Salamanca. In contrast to similar initiatives, this was achieved with the participation …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Internationalisation of Higher Education and Climate Change: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective
- San Diego State University (CA)
- Ghent University
- Eastern Institute of Technology
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Resilience Cohort, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
The Resilience Cohort (RC) is a program of the Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) at Indiana University (IU) that helps Indiana city, town, and county governments to measure and reduce local …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Brandeis University’s Year of Climate Action
- Brandeis University (MA)
In 2019, a task force set out to write a new climate action plan for the university. Among its recommendations was to dedicate an entire year to catalyzing and deepening …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Public Outreach & Engagement
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- My Green Lab (CA)
- University of Strathclyde
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus operations. The Lightning Talks are: Climate Neutral Districts - scalar city and region collaboration to drive climate action …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Keynote: Peter Kalmus
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (MD)
"I’ve realized that the main impact of reducing our emissions isn’t the emissions reduction itself: by modeling change, we tell a new story of what’s possible, shifting the culture and …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The UBC Climate Studies and Action Certificate as a Response to the Climate Emergency Declaration
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
This certificate is a response to the climate emergency 1. Creating justice centered, action oriented, accessible, interdisciplinary and hopeful climate education opportunities was one of six strategic priorities in the …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Student Organizing & Activism
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Creighton University (NE)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Seattle University (WA)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to student organizing and activism. The Lightning Talks are: Campus ESG: Development of Student-Run Sustainable Investing at Arizona State University …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The Week: The New Playbook for Climate Mobilization
- The Week
The Week is a climate mobilization tool that anyone can pick up and use, for free, to create courageous conversations about climate breakdown, and what we as a society can …
- Posted May 10, 2023
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Putting an Award-Winning Climate Action Plan into Action
- Mt. San Antonio College (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Learn from Mt. San Antonio College’s (Mt. SAC) Sustainability Director and Sustainability Coordinator about how their college’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) has been put into action! Conventional climate action plans …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2023
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Driving Change: Understanding Climate Impacts on Campus Transportation
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD)
- AASHE (MA)
The continental United States is experiencing an increase in the frequency and intensity of precipitation events which often lead to flooding. In the state of Maryland, between 2006 and 2020, …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2022
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Climate Action Exhibition
- American University of Sharjah
As part of developing AUS' Climate Action Plan (CAP) an exhibition was held to engage the entire AUS community. The exhibition explained the main focal points of the CAP, which …
- Posted Aug. 4, 2022
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Greening Burundi Project launches with support from Cornell Climate Online Fellows
- Cornell University (NY)
Emmanuel Niyoyabikoze, right, founder of the Greening Burundi Project, enjoys planting a few trees – on his way to a million trees – with a few children in his social …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Climate Action Plan RFP Guidelines: an open-source collaboration
- Brailsford & Dunlavey (DC)
Overview The purpose of this document is to support staff members tasked with writing an RFP for a: * Climate Action Plan * Carbon Mitigation Plan * Climate Action and …
- Posted July 18, 2022
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Establishing and sustaining Indiana’s first higher education chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby at Purdue University
- Purdue University (IN)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
In an effort to learn how to meaningfully engage with my community on the issue of climate change, I joined Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization which advances …
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Climate Action Commitment Roadshow Series
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech recently approved a revised version of the Climate Action Commitment. To educate the campus community about it, our Climate Action, Sustainability, and Energy (CASE) Office went on a …
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Achieving Sustainability and Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education Institutions: A Review
- Victoria University (Victoria)
- Charles Darwin University
Universities and higher education institutions play an important role in achieving a sustainable future through their teaching and by undertaking cutting edge research to combat climate change. There have been …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Student Teachers’ Willingness to Act in the Climate Change Context
- University of Rijeka
In education for sustainable development, widely regarded as a framework that offers us the opportunity to improve the ways in which we cope with climate change issues, the need for …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Assessing climate solutions and taking climate leadership: how can universities prepare their students for challenging times?
- Trent University (ON)
Through this point-of-departure paper we aim to prompt discussion and action around redesigning university learning to help students tackle climate-related challenges in a personally and societally meaningful way. We use …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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