Higher Education Climate Action Project (HECAP)

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    Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Research
    Education
    Civic Engagement
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Get Involved:

Get your campus involved in The Higher Education Climate Action Partnership (HECAP)!

Campus Emissions Reductions

Demonstrate leadership on climate change by making commitments and achieving significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from campus related activities

Contacts:

Ned Raynolds, Senior Project Director, Clean Air – Cool Planet
Julian Dautremont-Smith, Associate, Education for Sustainability - West
Edward Wells, Ph. D., Climate Committee, Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy

Research

Generates knowledge about how to reduce GHG emissions and implement solutions to climate change both by acting as a laboratory to reduce campus related GHG emissions and conducting climate change and policy relevant research

Contacts:

Tom Kelly, Office of Sustainability, University of New Hampshire

Education

Educates students and civil society about climate change causes, solutions, and responsibilities in an interdisciplinary manner that includes the scientific, economic, social, political, historical, and ethical dimensions of climate change:

Contacts:

Anthony Cortese, D. Sc. President, Second Nature

Civic Engagement

Engages civil society on climate change issues through programs that regularly bring public attention to the enormous challenges and opportunities entailed by climate change.

Contacts:

Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., Greenhouse Network
John Isham, Ph. D., “What Works” Project – Middlebury College