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March 2022
Accelerate Your Climate Awareness. Knowledge. Action. | Second Nature's Monthly E-Newsletter.
NOTABLE NEWS
Major Announcement
Our Newest 2022 Summit Keynote Speaker!
Jahi Wise
Senior Advisor for Climate Policy and Finance in the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy
Jahi Wise is the Senior Advisor for Climate Policy and Finance in the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, where he focuses on climate finance, clean energy deployment and economic development. Wise has held climate policy positions in the Office of the Mayor of New York City and at a national nonprofit focused on clean energy finance and deployment. Wise practiced as a project finance attorney at an international law firm and as general counsel of a social enterprise focused on community scale clean energy deployment.
Friday, April 8th | 12-12:30pm ET
Climate, Finance, and Higher Education: Perspectives from the White House
Want to attend this keynote session but not yet registered? There's still time!
But hurry because. . .
The 2022 Summit Begins Next Week!
Don't miss out on your opportunity to join us virtually at the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit! Register today before it's too late!
We need your voice at the table next week when we meet to foster courageous conversations and radical collaborations in our shared pursuit of a just, sustainable, and thriving carbon-free society. We hope to spur conversations and partnerships that are difficult and challenging yet essential and transformative. Don't miss out on connecting with your peers and key champions across sectors to build relationships and find solutions to the most consequential climate issues of our time.
There's Still Time to Register as a Host Institution, but Hurry!
Be a Host Institution and register up to 50 people on your campus.
Our Response to the February 28th Release of the Latest IPCC Report:
More. . .Read the Full Statement Here
BONUS BULLETIN
Academics for Climate Advocacy Working Group
We are excited to announce a new initiative aimed at engaging academics from higher education institutions from across the nation the:
Academics for Climate Advocacy (ACA) Working Group.
This Working Group is for academics interested in utilizing their institutional position and expertise to help advance climate policy at the municipal, state, and federal levels in a low-life way. Academics will 1) convene on a quarterly basis for Working Group meetings, 2) be contacted when there are meaningful opportunities to engage in climate advocacy, and 3) receive regular updates on relevant policy developments in their jurisdiction.
We recognize that academics often have limited capacity for this type of work, so our priority is to make meaningful climate advocacy as straightforward and low-commitment as possible. We hope to recruit a diverse range of academics from a variety of disciplines and institutions to advance climate legislation across the nation.
New Report Highlights Need for Equity, Access, and Collaboration in Federally Funded Climate Solutions Research
Earlier this week we released a new report titled “The Future of Academic Research on Climate Solutions”.
The report, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and produced in collaboration with researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Energy Transition Institute, evaluates the current climate research landscape supported by the US federal government and highlights key levers to improve the effectiveness of academic research for climate solutions.
Bonus: One of our Research Fellows April Burrage, who was involved in this Report was recently highlighting in the Sloan P. Foundation March 2022 newsletter here.
SIMAP® Update
REMINDER: The new Public Reporting Module is now live on the SIMAP site, at www.unhsimap.org/reporting
Step 1: Please schedule a one on one guided tour of the new public reporting module to review your data and make it public. During the guided tour we will also set up reporting module user accounts for you and others responsible for reporting at your institution.
Step 2: After the guided tour and user account set up, you will be able to report your most recent greenhouse gas data. We will cover this process during the tour. We are still seeking your most recent inventory by May 1, 2022.
SUMMARY
Main Information:
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MONTHLY MERIT
University of Pittsburgh Commits to 2037 Neutrality Goal
In February 2020, the University of Pittsburgh announced their commitment to being carbon neutral by 2037.
They recently released a Climate Action Plan to illustrate what steps they plan to take to reach their 2037 goal.
Congratulations to the University of Pittsburgh on continuing to Accelerate your Climate Action Goals!
RAPID RECOGNITIONS
Clarkson University Libraries First Academic Library to Complete Sustainable Libraries Certification Program
Publication Date: March 9, 2022
Source: Clarkson University News
U of M study shows strong winter and summer warming in Minnesota by 2100
Publication Date: February 24, 2022
Source: U of M News and Events
Sustainability at UW-Madison
Publication Date: March 3, 2022
Source: UW-Madison Office of the Chancellor
RELEVANT RESOURCES
Watch:
Webinar: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Solutions to Overcoming Challenges
On March 3rd, we hosted a webinar in conjunction with AEP Energy about energy efficiency and conservation challenges. Did you miss it? No problem! It's now available to watch:
Source: Second Nature YouTube Channel
March 2022 Monthly Policy Update
Read it now (click on image below):
Don't Miss Any of the Monthly Policy Updates! Sign-up to Receive Them Here.
Leading with Justice: Net Zero Investing & Conversations on Climate Justice
The Intentional Endowments Network (IEN), an organizational partner of ours, recently published a report about the intersectionality of climate and racial justice.
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Second Nature would like to welcome nZero as an affiliate partner and bronze level sponsor of the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit.
nZero offers a 24/7 carbon management platform that tracks and operationalizes energy, financial and greenhouse gas emissions data to help organizations reach climate change goals. Unlike other carbon management offerings who rely on third-party data and opaque averages, nZero gathers accurate, first-party, contextual data into a comprehensive view, making it simple for organizations to pinpoint energy opportunities within their operations, easily implement carbon reduction actions, and spend smarter along the way.
nZero is now gathering a limited number of higher education campuses to form the company's inaugural Higher Education Launch Cohort (HELC), a group that will participate in monthly collaboration meetings to accelerate the onboarding of the platform and share feedback about the features that are most important to their institution
and the unique challenges of the higher education sector. Reach out to Todd Weinstein to learn more todd@nzero.com.
nZero is seeking sustainability and energy officers perspectives on how to best serve higher ed. Please complete this ~10 minute survey: https://forms.gle/NWXPSFZ3VBh5gGrD8
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