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Yale has announced details of its three-pronged approach to achieving “carbon zero” status on campus by 2050, a sweeping plan that will reshape the university’s approach to the consumption of energy.
The new details address one of the key goals of the Yale Sustainability Plan 2025 (released in 2016), laying out a path to mitigating climate change through campus operations. They provide substantial new funding for overhauling campus infrastructure and researching climate solutions. And they revamp the Yale Carbon Charge — a campus initiative requiring top-level administrative units at Yale to pay for the emissions their buildings produce — which will become a key source of support for efforts to decarbonize the campus.
“I am proud of the research, the teaching, and the enhancements to campus operations under way to address climate change,” said Yale President Peter Salovey. “Together, they will enable us to assume a leading role among universities in the effort to slow and adapt to the profoundly disruptive ways our planet is changing. We must continue to think creatively as we act decisively.”
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