| Title: |
Climate Action in Higher Education: Roadmap |
| Authors: |
Ackerly, David; Bales, Roger; Blumenthal, George; Bunce, Lindsay; Bundy, Kevin; Criss, Anne; Faber, Sandra; Forman, Fonna; Huising, Mark; Lachapelle, Paul; Leauthaud, Alexie; Leauthaud, Crystele; Palkovacs, Eric; Pool, Robin; Reich, Peter; Shaw, Alison; Stemen, Mark; StClair, Matthew; Stoltz, Amanda; Zint, Michaela; Aron, Adam; Arthur, Derede; Beck, Michael; Burrus, Kai; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Fleischer, Amy; Gaensler, Bryan; Hseuh, Lily; Oberg, Angela; Rajagopal, Deepak; Sabol, Valerie; Samanta, Aritree; Shafiei, Fatemeh; Stubbs, Christopher |
| Publisher Information: |
eScholarship, University of California |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
University of California: eScholarship |
| Subject Terms: |
climate action; higher education |
| Description: |
The climate crisis and its attendant difficulties present more challenges than any single government, institution or individual can fix. From one perspective, universities and campus-community members have responded actively, creating new schools and centers, refocusing research, and doing their best to tackle the challenges of a warming world. More practically, however, current efforts are often a siloed mosaic of individual strategies. Time is of the essence – we must face the reality of almost certainly exceeding a 1.5° global temperature rise and potentially a 2.0° rise, if not more. This paper is a call for a more comprehensive, strategic, and coordinated response to the threat of climate change. This white paper presents a bird's-eye view of how a campus’s many components – administrators, faculty, staff, students, academic departments, interdisciplinary groups, operations units, and outreach services – can work together. Compiling the perspectives of United States and Canadian higher-education faculty and administrators from two workshops in 2024 and 2025, it highlights effective strategies and suggestions for expanded implementation, many without significant additional investment. This paper encourages a refocus of normal academic procedures like updating research goals and course curricula and an expansion into additional efforts. This conference synthesis and collection of current examples and opinions attempts to provide inspiring ideas, encouragement, and potential benefits to sustain readers as they work to create real-world change. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
qt82f057jt; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82f057jt; https://escholarship.org/content/qt82f057jt/qt82f057jt.pdf |
| DOI: |
10.48330/E2G59S |
| Availability: |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82f057jt; https://escholarship.org/content/qt82f057jt/qt82f057jt.pdf; https://doi.org/10.48330/E2G59S |
| Rights: |
CC-BY |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1A05031F |
| Database: |
BASE |