Duke Climate Commitment Releases Inaugural Annual Report ... - Duke Today
Duke Climate Commitment Releases Inaugural Annual Report | Duke Today
The Duke Climate Commitment is a call to action for the entire institution that has been answered at multiple levels of the university and the Health System. Following two years of campus-wide convenings, Duke formally announced its Climate Commitment in Sept. 2022. One year into this initiative, we report on the programming, events and funding opportunities that have furthered Duke’s actions toward a resilient, flourishing, carbon-neutral world.
In the year since the Climate Commitment’s launch, and following $36 million in inaugural gifts, work across all parts of campus has helped Duke leverage its proven expertise across five pillars to ensure our work has local, global and regional impact.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.