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Second Nature’s working groups and stakeholder engagement initiatives are action-oriented hubs for innovation and exploration. These groups bring together campus leaders, faculty members, staff, and partners to engage intentionally with issues, source and share solutions, and help drive our sector’s work. Learn more and discover opportunities to get involved.
Academics can utilize their expertise to advance climate policy and network with other climate researchers.
The Academic Leaders Alliance is a peer exchange group for the leaders of interdisciplinary climate centers, institutes, and/or campus-wide initiatives at institutions of higher education.
This new working group will convene colleges and universities to share strategies and solutions for financing decarbonization and resilience on campus, prioritizing approaches beyond traditional ROI models and independent of government incentives.
This working group focuses on how to better recognize campus land stewardship and regeneration as part of the institutional commitment to climate action, and provides space for campus leaders to explore in community the new Land Sector Removals Guidance from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Campus leaders come together to focus on enhancing resilience and adaptation in their communities.
This working group supports Scope 3 Category 5 (Waste Generated in Operations) by identifying best practices for data collection and reporting and producing open-source guidance for higher education, with plans to expand to other Scope III categories and campus waste solutions.
The CoP meets monthly and is open to Second Nature members from community colleges. The structure is open. Participants can listen, share, and/or come with questions or situations to seek support from peers on all issues related to climate and sustainability work.
To join, please email: [email protected]
Faculty, staff, administration, students, community partners, champions, and advocates building capacity at HBCUs and MSI institutions substantively shaped by the populations they serve.
Second Nature established an Offset Advisory Council to harness campus insights, foster interactivity, and shape best practices in this complex area.
The Offsets Lab is a container for experimentation and collaboration that directs higher education’s best assets to propel innovation and integrity in the carbon offsets space.
Second Nature’s IRA Community of Practice is transitioning to a new focus group. Check back here for updates and details regarding this new group.
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NOTE: UC3 Working groups are populated by members of the UC3 coalition, a group of 23 R1 Institutions. While group membership is limited to UC3 schools, working group outputs have sector-wide benefit and impact.
For further inquiries about UC3 working groups, contact [email protected].
A group of appointed and elected leaders from member institutions who meet monthly to steward strategy and governance of UC3.
All the official designated liaisons to UC3 from each member institution meet monthly to discuss topics pertaining to campus climate action. This group receives regular updates on coalition opportunities to disseminate across their campuses, and provides feedback from their campus regarding UC3 priorities and engagement.
Scholars and Research program staff focused on transdisciplinary (TD) or community-engaged research meet monthly to network and collaborate on resources to build capacity in the TD field.
UC3 campuses attending the annual Conference of Parties convene monthly from May-December to develop educational webinars and engagement sessions for the higher education sector, and collaborate on participation in the COP.
Monthly discussions support research-intensive universities in developing and implementing high-impact climate-related CLL initiatives, by identifying and filling resource gaps, and by convening operational and academic practitioners to exchange ideas, methods, and experiences, and discover opportunities for collaborative work.
Participating campuses can receive mentorship in establishing or refining a campus wide sustainability literacy or culture assessment, and attend quarterly full cohort meetings to network with other campuses in the initiative and explore common questions and data analysis opportunities.
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