Commitments

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Second Nature's Climate Leadership Network provides colleges and universities a framework to make public commitments to climate action. College and University presidents and chancellors make public, institutional commitments by signing onto one of the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments, becoming Climate Leadership Network signatories.

  • Carbon Commitment:  Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and achieving carbon neutrality as soon as  possible.
  • Resilience Commitment:  Climate adaptation planning and community capacity building to respond to climate impacts.
  • Climate Commitment:  Integrates carbon neutrality with climate resilience and provides a comprehensive approach to mitigating and adapting to a changing climate.

All three commitments require publicly reporting progress, and creating and revising an action plan.

race_to_zero_logo.jpg Race to Zero - Universities and Colleges - is a global campaign to rally leadership and action in the education sector and is supported by Second Nature, EAUC, and UNEP

 

Name Carbon CommitmentClimate CommitmentResilience CommitmentRace to Zero
State University of New York at AlbanyYesYes
State University of New York at BuffaloYesYes
State University of New York at FredoniaYesYes
State University of New York at New PaltzYes
State University of New York at Stony BrookYesYes
State University of New York College at CortlandYesYes
State University of New York College at Cortland Cortland
State University of New York College at OswegoYesYes
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and ForestryYesYes
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)Yes
Sterling CollegeYes
Stetson UniversityYesYes
St. Mary's College of MarylandYesYes
Stockholm University (Sweden)Yes
Stockton UniversityYes
St. Philip's CollegeYesYes
Strathmore University (Kenya)Yes
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNY OrangeYes
Swansea University (United Kingdom)Yes
Swarthmore CollegeYesYes
Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)Yes
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (Switzerland)Yes
Swiss Fedl. Inst. Aquatic Sci. Technol. (Eawag) (Switzerland)Yes
Syracuse UniversityYesYes
Tampere University (Finland)Yes
Technological University Dublin (Ireland)Yes
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)Yes
Temple UniversityYesYes
TERI School of Advanced Studies (India)Yes
The College of New JerseyYesYes
The Community College of Baltimore CountyYesYes
The Education Training Collective (United Kingdom)Yes
The George Washington UniversityYesYes
The London Institute of Banking & Finance (United Kingdom)Yes
The New SchoolYesYes
The Ohio State University - Columbus CampusYesYes
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (United Kingdom)Yes
The Universities at Shady GroveYesYes
The University for Sustainability (United States)Yes
The University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)Yes
The University of Tennessee at Martin
Thomas Jefferson University-East Falls CampusYesYes
Thompson Rivers University (Canada)Yes
Tongji University (China)Yes
Toulouse INP - ENSAT (France)Yes
Towson UniversityYesYes
Truckee Meadows Community CollegeYes
Tufts UniversityYesYes
Tulane UniversityYesYes