{"id":154611,"date":"2014-04-07T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/gazette\/?p=154611"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:31:06","slug":"fund-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2014\/04\/fund-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Fund to tackle climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"403\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/faust_climate.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">President Drew Faust today challenged University alumni and friends to contribute toward a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund. \u201cHarvard has a vital leadership role to play in this work. As a university, it has a special obligation and accountability to the future, to the long view needed to anticipate and alter the trajectory and impact of climate change,\u201d she said.<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">File photo by Jon Chase\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tCampus &amp; Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tFund to tackle climate change\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2014-04-07\">\n\t\t\tApril 7, 2014\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t4 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tFaust issues challenge to help find environmental solutions\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>In an effort to catalyze research with potential to accelerate the progression from nonrenewable to renewable sources of energy, Harvard President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/biography\">Drew Faust<\/a> today challenged University alumni and friends to contribute toward a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund that will seed new approaches to confronting the threats posed by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Change Solutions Fund will be part of the Harvard Campaign\u2019s broader ongoing efforts to raise funds for energy and environment research, which have already generated nearly $120 million in support.<\/p>\n<p>Faust said that she will make available $1 million at the start of the 2014-15 academic year to launch the fund, which will invite grant proposals from faculty and students across Harvard with innovative ideas for projects with promise to enable the transition from carbon-based to renewable fuels.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/news\/2014\/confronting-climate-change\">letter to the Harvard community<\/a> that also touched on progress made toward meeting environmental sustainability goals on campus and Harvard\u2019s commitment to sustainable investing, Faust noted that universities have produced much of the research upon which the scientific consensus on the threat of climate change is based.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeas, innovation, discovery, and rigorous independent thought will serve as indispensable elements in combating the climate threat; these are the special province of universities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvard has a vital leadership role to play in this work. As a university, it has a special obligation and accountability to the future, to the long view needed to anticipate and alter the trajectory and impact of climate change,\u201d she said. \u201cAlready we support research at the vanguard of energy and climate science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faust\u2019s letter followed an October 2013 message to the community in which she outlined ways in which the University could most effectively address climate change, with special focus on research, on-campus sustainability initiatives, and sustainable investment practices. In today\u2019s letter, she released a report<b><i> <\/i><\/b>showing that the University had made substantial progress toward its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by the year 2016, and she highlighted Harvard\u2019s decision to sign on with the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Across the University, more than 250 courses are offered that focus on aspects of environmental sustainability, and more than 225 faculty are affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.harvard.edu\">Harvard University Center for the Environment<\/a>. Recognizing the power of Harvard to convene experts from across a variety of disciplines, Faust said she aims to \u201ccatalyze\u201d aspects of research on campus \u201cspecifically focused on shaping and accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI challenge our talented and dedicated faculty and students to identify how their efforts can propel societies and individuals along this path. And I challenge our alumni and friends to assist me in raising $20 million for a fund that will seed and spur innovative approaches to confronting climate change, as an element of our broader campaign efforts in energy and environment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will be administered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. Vice Provost for Research Richard D. McCullough will be advised by a committee that will review applications from Harvard faculty members and students, and he will make recommendations on final grantees to Faust. Proposals will be ranked based on an evaluation of intellectual merit, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and potential impact on the fields of energy and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty experts on the committee will be asked to look for research projects that demonstrate a clear pathway to application as well as riskier projects with the potential to be transformative over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research across Harvard \u2014 in climate science, engineering, law, public health, policy, design, and business \u2014 has an unparalleled capacity to accelerate the progression from nonrenewable to renewable sources of energy,\u201d Faust said.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105622744,"featured_media":154653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":13,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"2021-09-08 18:23","document_color_palette":"crimson","author":"","affiliation":"","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[3732,6774,7101,8543,8551,8555,10786,2383,12335,12463,14962,15470,15911,25571,26196,26305,27742,29113,34756,35212],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-154611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-alumni","tag-business","tag-carbon-based","tag-climate","tag-climate-change-solutions-fund","tag-climate-science","tag-development","tag-drew-faust","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-harvard-campaign","tag-harvard-management-company","tag-news-hub","tag-office-of-the-vice-provost-for-research","tag-one-harvard","tag-policy","tag-renewable-energy","tag-united-nations-principles-of-responsible-investing","tag-vice-provost-for-research-richard-d-mccullough"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fund to tackle climate change &#8212; 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As a university, it has a special obligation and accountability to the future, to the long view needed to anticipate and alter the trajectory and impact of climate change,\u201d she said. \u201cAlready we support research at the vanguard of energy and climate science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faust\u2019s letter followed an October 2013 message to the community in which she outlined ways in which the University could most effectively address climate change, with special focus on research, on-campus sustainability initiatives, and sustainable investment practices. In today\u2019s letter, she released a report<b><i> <\/i><\/b>showing that the University had made substantial progress toward its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by the year 2016, and she highlighted Harvard\u2019s decision to sign on with the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Across the University, more than 250 courses are offered that focus on aspects of environmental sustainability, and more than 225 faculty are affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.harvard.edu\">Harvard University Center for the Environment<\/a>. 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