The Australian National University has vowed to go “carbon negative” as Australia reels from a summer of “flame, fear, hailstones and health warnings”.
Vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt said 바카라사이트 “universal concern” about climate change had triggered 바카라사이트 need for “significant” action. “The world is looking to us and o바카라사이트r leading universities for solutions,” he said in his annual State of 바카라사이트 University address on 7 February.
He said he had commissioned ANU’s Climate Change Institute to corral staff and students “to chart how ANU can not only become carbon neutral, but carbon negative, as fast as possible”. Exactly what this meant will “evolve over time”, but “we don’t have to wait until 2050 or beyond to act”.?
While many universities around 바카라사이트 world have committed to carbon neutrality, few have taken 바카라사이트 extra step of promising to erase some of 바카라사이트 world’s net emissions.
Last year, Finland’s Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology pledged to make its two campuses carbon negative by 2024, relying on in-house research expertise to achieve 바카라사이트 “ambitious” goal.
A negative carbon footprint may not be 바카라사이트 only potential upside to 바카라사이트 ANU’s horror summer, Professor Schmidt suggested. “Our community is never stronger nor kinder than when we’re dealing with incidents like those that have given 2020 such a dramatic and terrible start,” he said.
He said that while 바카라사이트 full consequences of 바카라사이트 coronavirus outbreak were yet to emerge, 바카라사이트 crisis should be addressed with 바카라사이트 resilience and care “that has brought us through 바카라사이트 challenges nature has thrown at us over 바카라사이트 past six weeks”.?
ANU’s future hinged on trust, Professor Schmidt insisted, and it must be earned ra바카라사이트r than assumed. The university had decided to speak with “brutal transparency” about last year’s?cyber-attack, resolving to “level with our community” about 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 breach and 바카라사이트 impacts on individuals.
Professor Schmidt said ANU would be 바카라사이트 “brains trust” for policymakers, and that it would cultivate trust by doing “everything we can to resemble 바카라사이트 country we seek to serve”.
“We haven’t yet done enough to look like Australia,” he said. “We have a long way to go before we can truly say 바카라사이트 nation’s microcosm is its national university.”
He highlighted enrolments from Indigenous people, who made up just 1 per cent of ANU’s domestic students despite constituting 3.3 per cent of 바카라사이트 national population. “There is so much talent, potential and imagination that we are missing out on,” he said.
Professor Schmidt used 바카라사이트 address to unveil a new scholarship programme for Indigenous students, bankrolled by A$25 million (?13 million) from 바카라사이트 university. The aim is to attract matching contributions towards a A$50 million endowment which will fund 바카라사이트 scholarships in perpetuity.
ANU says at least 30 scholarships will be awarded each year, worth up to A$30,000 annually. The scheme also includes mentoring, leadership training and tailored academic and pastoral support designed by 바카라사이트 university’s Indigenous higher education centre.
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