Second Nature--Tufts Climate Initiative: Action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The Tufts Climate Initiative (TCI) was launched in 1998 to steer Tufts University on a cleaner energy path that will enable it to "meet or beat" the target set for the United States under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Tufts also intends to continue contributing to an improved public understanding of the climate issue through student involvement and increased research in engineering, science, economics and policy. Not satisfied with the government's reluctance to decisively prevent global climate change, Tufts intends to be an institutional model of climate protection to demonstrate to the rest of society that reducing greenhouse gases can be cost-effective and beneficial.2008: Brown and Blue Go Green
Until recently,the Tufts Climate Initiative was the premiere program among universities to make climate change not only a goal, but a reality.Though grant funding for this program ran out, most of the people who created and worked on the project are now major players in the Office of Sustainability, so the knowledge and goals of the program are still in place.
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