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...campus sustainability. Sustainability Principles, our green building practices, the Green Campus Loan Fund, and the Harvard Green Campus Initiative have won accolades and inspired imitations across the country. Most recently, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael Smith has supported Harvard’s first-ever greenhouse gas reduction commitment, which requires FAS to reduce emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels...
This cautious leadership style is understandable, but it is unacceptable. With leading scientists calling for the industrialized world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, there is no time for a leading university like Harvard to commit to only short-term plans. We must drive the change that scientists—including many Harvard faculty members—say we need...
Many critics of climate neutrality stand aghast at the cost that greenhouse gas reductions would inflict upon Harvard. These criticisms, however, are flawed for two reasons. First and foremost, many of the efforts towards neutrality would actually save money. Harvard’s Green Campus Loan Fund has achieved a return-on-investment of 26 percent—a higher return than the endowment—by funding efficiency and conservation measures that pay for themselves within five to ten years. Efficiency savings could be used to fund other aspects of emission reduction, such as investment in renewable energy...
Second, global climate change presents a moral imperative that demands big thinking and innovation by the world’s political and academic leaders, not protestations couched in dollars and cents. The majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from the world’s wealthiest nations. According to The New York Times, the average American citizen produces 20 tons of carbon dioxide each year, compared to only 3.8 tons in China and 1.2 tons in India. Although all countries must deal with the impacts of climate change, most of the burden will be borne by the world?...
...world cannot take full responsibility for its impact, what hope is there for other leading institutions and countries to work against devastating climate change? Rather than lag behind, Harvard must spearhead this effort by developing robust practices for measuring, accounting for and reducing institutions’ greenhouse gas emissions. The first step is to commit to climate neutrality...