Carbon Neutral by 2025
Carbon Commitment + Resilience Commitment = Climate Commitment
Oberlin College took a leadership role in environmental stewardship when former President Nancy Dye established Oberlin as one of the nation's first institutions of higher education to accept the goal of climate neutrality by signing the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
As a charter signatory in 2006, Oberlin was one of the first four schools in the United States and the first in its peer group to sign the ACUPCC, an initiative developed by Second Nature , the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and ecoAmerica to address what they term "the defining challenge of our century—the twin crises of energy sustainability and climate change."
Oberlin College selected the year 2025 to achieve carbon neutrality.
In 2015, Second Nature added an additional commitment opportunity to their framework - resilience . Oberlin signed this commitment in the charter signatory period taking leadership to work alongside the greater Oberlin community to increase our community resilience.
Oberlin College is a signatory of the climate commitment.
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