Climate Action Vision
The urgency of climate change demands immediate and intentional action.
Climate change is one of the most important and pressing challenges of our time. The urgency of this crisis demands action that redefines leadership, 跨越学科和知识的界限, and addresses the structural inequalities that contribute to our current global predicament. 作为一所位于纽约市的女子学院, Barnard has a responsibility to address climate change — especially as it relates to issues surrounding gender, income, and race. Indeed, research is very clear that the consequences of climate change have a disproportionate impact on women, people of color, 以及那些在美国经济上处于最不利地位的人.S. and across the world. It is vital that the search for climate solutions include diverse viewpoints and prioritize those who have been and will be most affected.
十大电竞游戏综合排名气候行动愿景, the result of a campus-wide collaborative effort from 2016 - 2018, outlines our 360-degree approach that prioritizes the role of women, people of color, and low-income communities in defining new paradigms for climate leadership. 但还有很多事情要做. We are currently developing a plan for emissions reductions across all three scopes that meets the ambitious New York state and city standards with the goal of carbon neutrality and have worked to green our campus through everything from lawn care to internal reuse programs and organics collection. 我们的重点主要集中在三个方面:十大电竞游戏综合排名的学术, finance and governance, 以及校园文化和运营.
公民会议建议: In the fall of 2020, 对话系列和公民大会, open to all students, faculty, staff, and alumnae, brought our community together to develop a set of recommendations to further advance Barnard's Climate Action Vision. 我们的谈话重点是可持续性和可及性, 课程氛围, and travel emissions.
Academics: Barnard is already home to many programs and initiatives that promote climate action. 作为哥伦比亚大学社区的一员, our faculty are pioneers in environmental research and are working diligently to help Columbia shape its next steps in this area. Importantly, 我们的教师也是专职教师, committed to preparing our students to mitigate the impact of climate change and serve as leaders in this global crisis. Case in point, Barnard graduates have gone on to lead important institutions such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Greenpeace. Moving forward, Barnard is reexamining its general education requirements to explore the possibility of adding a requirement that all Barnard students take coursework centered on the environment, sustainability, and/or climate change. In 2017-18, our Willen Seminar on Sustainability began exploring sustainability across the curriculum, and in spring 2020, the 参与教学法中心 continued this dialogue through a series of faculty workshops.
Finance and Governance: Barnard is committed to incorporating climate and sustainability into its decision-making, from capital improvements and our endowment to routine financial choices. In 2017, Barnard’s Board of Trustees announced that the College would divest its endowment from companies that dispute climate science or otherwise seek to thwart efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change. We have released our Climate Science List, which evaluates oil and gas companies on their words and deeds. The Climate Science List is based on criteria developed by Barnard faculty, students, and staff in consultation with our partners at Fossil Free Indexes (FFI) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Barnard is using this novel approach (and the associated data) to focus its endowment on companies that recognize climate science and the risks posed by climate change. 学院还公开了气候科学名单. In doing so, our hope is to influence (and provide support for) other institutions’ investment decisions.
气候科学名单在 2020可持续校园指数. A publication from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), the Sustainable Campus Index highlights innovative and high-impact initiatives from colleges and universities that submitted a Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) report in the most recent calendar year.
校园文化与运作: Barnard joined the NYC Carbon Challenge in 2009 and is proud to be one of the first NYC institutions to reach the initial goal of 30% emissions reductions from 2005 levels. 2017年,学院签署了 “We Are Still In” pledge, underscoring our effort to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. 但还有很多事情要做. We are currently developing a plan for emissions reductions across all three scopes1 that meets the ambitious New York state and city standards with the goal of carbon neutrality. We have also worked to green our campus through everything from lawn care to internal reuse programs and organics collection. At the same time, our faculty, staff, and students are actively pursuing solutions to the social inequities women and low-income communities experience due to climate change. Past programming such as Beyond Barnard’s fall 2019 “Dialogues for Change” and our spring 2019 event “Women, Clothing, 和气候”探索这些交叉点.
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Barnard’s approach to sustainability and climate action is rooted in its long history of breaking barriers for and with women who challenge the status quo. 这是应对气候变化所需要的工作, especially with respect to involving voices that have traditionally not been heard. Barnard is grateful to all in our community who have worked together, and individually, to support our efforts across the campus to reverse the growing threat to our planet and build a resilient and equitable future for all. 请加入我们,继续这项重要的工作.