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sustainability is rapidly changing the face of nyu, the largest private university in the us, a community of 50,000 students, faculty and staff embedded in the heart of new york city. nyu’s climate action plan is a comprehensive strategy which seeks to engage the whole university community in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as effectively and rapidly as possible.

through a ‘silver buckshot’ approach — including a new, high-efficiency cogeneration power plant, the city’s first free bike-sharing program, rapid expansion of ‘living laboratory’ teaching and research efforts, and programs such as green grants and a sustainability task force designed to harness the distributed grassroots power of our community — nyu has already reduced global warming pollution by 33% in five years…

and we won’t stop until we reach our goal under the american college and university presidents climate commitment (acupcc) to achieve climate neutrality by 2040!

www.nyu.edu/sustainability

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