Climate Action Policy Announced

The University at Buffalo recognizes the substantial challenge that climate change poses to the institution, region, state, country, and planet. In response, the university has committed to becoming climate neutral by 2030 and to taking an active leadership role in addressing this global challenge through education, research, campus operations, and community engagement.

UB’s Climate Action Plan is a roadmap of ten innovative, engaging, and digestible steps to increase climate action throughout the university and advance a path to carbon neutrality by 2030. The strategy is holistic, inclusive, engages the broader university community, and employs a triple bottom line approach as well as is consistent with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This Climate Action Policy describes the university’s commitment to climate action and sustainability across its core mission areas: teaching, research, operations, and public service. These commitments are advanced through UB’s Climate Action Plan, which serves as the operational roadmap organized around ten solutions and three integrative themes for achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

This policy applies to the university and its operations.

Affiliated entities are encouraged to align their environmental and climate-related practices with the principles outlined in this policy, where applicable and to collaborate with UB in tracking and reporting emissions attributable to their operations.