The Climate Change Education Act aims to enhance climate literacy via grants to higher education institutions and education entities.
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AASHE Supports Global Forest Accountability on International Day of Forests
AASHE calls for increased accountability in global forest conservation efforts on the International Day of Forests.
AASHE Joins Call for U.S. Climate Leadership and Fair Share Commitment at COP28
As the COP28 climate summit approaches, AASHE has signed onto a collective call urging President Biden to recognize the U.S.’s historical responsibility for climate change and commit to contributing its fair share of the global effort to counter climate change.
AASHE Endorses Academic Health Institutions’ Declaration on Planetary Health
The Academic Health Institutions’ Declaration on Planetary Health calls on academic health institutions to take immediate action to halt the negative impact of their activities on the planet’s natural systems, and to institute adaptive and regenerative measures.
AASHE Endorses the Children’s Fundamental Rights & Climate Recovery Resolution
The congressional concurrent resolution supports the principles underpinning the groundbreaking Juliana v. United States climate lawsuit, in which 21 youth plaintiffs assert that the government’s actions causing climate change have violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty, property, and equal protection of the laws.
AASHE Signs the Climate Education Coalition Open Letter
The Climate Education Coalition calls upon the COP28 UAE Presidency and every UN member state to cooperate in highlighting universal climate education as a crucial aspect of combating the climate […]
AASHE Signs the Million Advocates for Sustainable Science Letter Campaign
My Green Lab and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories have issued a challenge to science funders around the world to encourage sustainability in research. The Million Advocates for Sustainable Science letter campaign aims to demonstrate support for systemic change within the global science funding system.
AASHE Signs the Pay Equity Pledge
The wage gap that exists means that women of color make significantly less than their peers. Environmental organizations cannot promote diversity, equity, inclusion or justice if they are still paying […]
AASHE Endorses the Exit Amazon Oil and Gas Platform
The Amazon biome is home to thousands of Indigenous and frontline communities and is critical to global climate regulation. Due to continued bank investment in oil and gas activity, the […]
AASHE Signs the Letter to World Leaders: Now Is The Moment To Accelerate the Just, Renewable Energy Future and Close the Fossil Fuel Era
Fossil fuels fund war crimes and other conflicts around the world, provoke war and militarism for fossil fuel resources and drive the climate emergency. AASHE signed the Letter to World […]