Climate Challenge: Accepted

Climate change remains, in a world crowded with problems, this generation’s defining challenge. At AU we embrace such challenges. AU is committed to being a world leader in sustainability education, campus action, and knowledge production.

The 2022 Year of Climate Action will be designed to catapult AU to new levels of self-reflection, outreach, and engagement with climate change as an issue and with the communities that climate change touches.

The year will be based around programming and activities designed to strengthen and showcase AU’s commitment to meaningful action on climate change. AU is already deeply committed to and engaged with climate action. The year of climate action, to catalyze a changing of hearts on our campus and within the communities with which we work, will take advantage of historic and contemporary strengths in social activism and community-oriented research. AU is also uniquely positioned for innovation at the intersections between and among the arts, science, and policy, inflected by a clear headed focus on justice and equity considerations.

Related links

• Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change at the AU Museum
• Climate Mitigation Ambition in the Wake of COVID-19 and the 2021 United Nations Report
• Department of Environmental Science