Yesterday, networks, representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six continents, announced that they are declaring a climate emergency, and agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work with students.
“What we teach shapes the future. We welcome this commitments from universities to go climate neutral by 2030 and to scale-up their efforts on campus,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, adding: “Young people are increasingly at the forefront of calls for more action on climate and environmental challenges.”
A Director for Students Organising for Sustainability, Charlotte Bonner, who spoke in support of the action, said: “Young people around the world feel that schools, colleges and universities have been too slow to react to the crisis that is now bearing down on us.