To unite climate efforts, maximize their impact, and identify new ways for MIT to contribute climate solutions, MIT has appointed more than a dozen faculty to its new Climate Nucleus, a committee established by the Institute’s “Fast Forward” climate action plan. The committee will be co-chaired by professors Noelle Selin and Anne White.
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The Snohomish County Climate Action Advisory Committee is seeking a new member. The committee provides recommendations to encourage adoption of policies, programs, and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, address climate change, protect public health, and preserve the natural environment in Snohomish County.
The Climate Action Advisory Committee advises the county’s office of energy and sustainability, the county executive and county council on: 1) the county’s internal sustainable operations action plan and a new countywide climate action plan; 2) opportunities to improve input on environmental sustainability issues from all of Snohomish County’s diverse communities; and 3) strategies to engage Snohomish County residents and businesses on sustainability and climate change issues.
MIT’s second climate action plan, titled Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade, was announced by President L. Rafael Reif, Vice President for Research Maria Zuber, Associate Provost Richard Lester, Dean of Engineering Anantha Chandrakasan, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor in a May 12 email to MIT community members.
The email writes that MIT is in a position “to set a standard of climate leadership” and that with the plan, it commits to “a coordinated set of leadership actions to spur innovation, accelerate action, and deliver impact.”
The development of the new plan was led by Zuber, Lester, and Chandrakasan, who also engaged with community members and solicited feedback for the plan through various meetings, engagement sessions, climate symposia, and fora with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and external partners.
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The City of Pembroke is the first municipality in Renfrew County to declare a climate emergency.
In a five-to-one vote at its April 20 meeting, city council voted to declare a climate emergency, “recognizing that climate change poses a worldwide threat, including localized threats to infrastructure, residents, businesses, institutions, investors, and developers within the City [of Pembroke].”
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Councillor Ed Jacyno, who put forward the motion, said climate change is resulting in more frequent instances of severe and damaging weather and that natural resources are not infinite so maintaining status quo was not an option.