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Achieving Stanford’s goal of reaching at least net-zero emissions from its operations could also help businesses and governments reach their own emissions goals

The new school will include transitional academic divisions, university-wide cross-cutting themes organized into institutes and an accelerator focused on solutions.

The university’s use of emerging green, social and climate bond designations signify Stanford’s commitment to sustainability, inclusion and student access to education.

Stanford is seeking to reach ambitious net-zero emissions goals by tackling emissions from campus food, goods, travel and investments.

Stanford trustees received briefings on university initiatives including the new school focused on climate and sustainability.

Stanford’s Long-Range Vision seeks to increase and accelerate both the creation of new knowledge through foundational research and the uptake of that knowledge as solutions.

The Faculty Senate heard an update on the structure of the new school and learned about a Sustainability Accelerator that will translate policy and technology solutions.

After a Deliberative Polling event, faculty showed majority support for proposals relating to the organization and structure of the new school – but not without debate.

Following deliberations by a Blueprint Advisory Committee, leaders are seeking faculty input on proposals for the new school’s structure, composition and areas of focus.

A school focused on climate and sustainability, announced last May, is beginning to take shape. Leaders anticipate blueprints for the school’s academic structure by winter quarter.

The sustainability initiative has awarded 17 seed grants providing one year of funding to faculty pursuing groundbreaking ideas for sustainability solutions.

Initiatives that arose out of the university’s Long-Range Vision have been making progress toward the goal of accelerating Stanford's impact in the world.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced a school focused on climate and sustainability that will help the university address the urgent challenges facing the planet.

Sustainable Stanford is encouraging everyone on campus to “say goodbye” to drinking and dining items designed to be used once and thrown away.

A committee is exploring ways of bridging sustainability efforts on campus and creating new mechanisms for addressing critical issues facing the planet

At its meeting this week, the Board of Trustees heard a report on the progress of the Sustainability Initiative, among other matters.

A second solar-generating plant, to be built in the next three years, will complete the university’s transition to clean power and further shrink campus greenhouse gas emissions.

The university is on an ambitious path to reducing carbon emissions and waste.