Faculty & Staff Address Colorado's Climate Policy
"Where is Colorado's 2017 Climate Action Plan?", asks Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty member of the Environmental Engineering Program at the «Ƶ.
Researchers and educators from Colorado high education institutions have teamed up to take matters into their own hands and demand an updated climate action plan that moves beyond the 2015 climate action plan and includes measurable goals that are subject to deadlines. As a member of the project’s organizing committee, Miller has been collaborating with faculty and staff members from Colorado State University and the «Ƶ to call for more aggressive action on climate change at the Colorado State level.
This week a was sent to Governor Hickenlooper calling on him to “urgently release a 2017 Climate Action Plan with specific, measurable goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the state level and enhance adaptive capacity in Colorado communities.”
This letter was written in a collaboration between Colorado State University (CSU) and «Ƶ (CU-«Ƶ) and signed by faculty from 15 Colorado higher education institutions with 277 signatories. The institutions represented are:
CU-«Ƶ
CSU
CU-Denver
School of Mines
DU
CU-Colorado Springs
Fort Lewis
Colorado College
Pikes Peak Community College
Western State
UNC
Metro State
Colorado Mesa
CSU-Pueblo
Adams State
Read more about this collaborative effort