On Wednesday, December 12, from 2-3:00pm in the Cayuga Lake Meeting Room in the Campus Center, the Presidents Climate Commitment Committee will tune into a special webcast titled "Climate Change and Higher Education: Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality." The campus community is invited to attend this webcast, which will feature the president of Arizona State University and other educational leaders.
Moderated by the editor of The New York Times' Science Times, this program will cover the highlights of what is happening in higher education around climate change, as well as the basics of the ACUPCC and what it means for specific activities around climate change, both now and in the future. It will provide models which are transferable to other higher education institutions, corporations, and communities. Participants will learn best practices, national trends and resources they can utilize.
To date, more than 450 presidents and chancellors have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a unique collective action that is the first by a large sector to set climate neutrality as the ultimate goal. President Peggy Williams signed the ACUPCC in May 2007 and convened a broad-based campus working group to develop the target, timetable, and implementation plan for Ithaca College to become carbon-neutral.
For more information: www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org
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