Columbia Local weather Faculty Named College Associate for Local weather Week NYC 2023
The Local weather Group has chosen the Columbia Local weather Faculty as its College Associate for this yr’s Local weather Week NYC. Working from Sept.17-24, Local weather Week NYC convenes key local weather leaders to speed up local weather motion and is the most important annual international local weather occasion of its type.
“By partnering with Local weather Week NYC, the Columbia Local weather Faculty helps to construct international momentum towards local weather motion at a second of intensifying urgency within the struggle towards climate change,” stated Local weather Faculty Interim Dean Jeffrey Shaman. “Collaboration and collective motion are on the coronary heart of our faculty’s goal. We’re proud to accomplice with Local weather Week NYC and host a full lineup of occasions on our campus all week lengthy.”
Now in its fifteenth yr, Local weather Week NYC brings collectively companies, governments, civil society, and the broader international viewers to showcase main local weather options and talk about tips on how to do extra, quick. It’s organized by Local weather Group, in partnership with the UN Common Meeting and the Metropolis of New York, producing over 400 occasions and actions throughout town designed to push the world to place their local weather plans into motion.
A number of Local weather Week NYC 2023 in-person occasions will function Columbia Local weather Faculty specialists and be hosted on Columbia’s campuses in Morningside Heights and in Manhattanville. Data about audio system, delegates, and the occasions program will be discovered on the Columbia Local weather Faculty NYC Local weather Week web site.
“We’re excited to once more accomplice with Columbia Local weather Faculty for this yr’s Local weather Week NYC,” stated Angela Barranco, Local weather Group government director for North America. “Universities play a key position in educating the general public concerning the pressing want for local weather motion via their specialists and improvement of the following era of leaders who will champion the complicated modifications we have to attain our local weather targets quick.”
Established in 2020, the Columbia Local weather Faculty represents a historic dedication by Columbia to sort out the local weather disaster. The primary new college to be established at Columbia in 25 years, it serves as a hub for analysis, studying, and motion. The Local weather Faculty builds on Columbia’s strengths to resolve issues, educate future local weather leaders, and generate the data wanted to design and encourage options because the window to avert the doubtless catastrophic results of climate change closes.
This yr’s Local weather Week NYC is anticipated to be even larger than 2022, which was essentially the most impactful, formidable, and far-reaching one thus far. Organizers plan to make use of the week as a rallying name for the significant contributions nonetheless wanted to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and to be on a path to net-zero by 2050.
This yr, Local weather Week NYC will host in-person occasions throughout ten occasion themes; Constructed Setting, Vitality, Environmental Justice, Transport, Finance, Sustainable Dwelling, Nature, Coverage, Business and Food.
”By naming the Columbia Local weather Faculty because the official College Associate for the third yr in a row, the Local weather Group is recognizing the management that universities present to the urgent challenges of our local weather disaster” stated Daniel Zarrilli, particular advisor on local weather and sustainability at Columbia College. “This summer season’s record-breaking storms, warmth waves, and wildfires have once more demonstrated the pressing must construct better resilience, guarantee environmental justice, and finish the age of fossil fuels as we work to make sure a livable future. Towards this backdrop, the Columbia Local weather Faculty is proud to proceed this partnership with the Local weather Group and provide a full lineup of collaborative in-person and on-line convenings to advance local weather options all through this yr’s Local weather Week NYC.”
