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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Missing signature

A letter to President-elect Trump and members of Congress was signed by many university and college leaders concerning climate change and the Paris agreement. The chancellors of UC campuses signed. But there was one missing signature.

Excerpt from letter:

We, the undersigned leaders of higher education institutions throughout the United States, recognize our academic and ethical responsibilities to current and future generations to take aggressive climate action; to reduce our sector’s carbon pollution, to support interdisciplinary climate education, and to continue research that expands our understanding of rapidly changing earth systems. We are committed to developing and deploying innovative climate solutions that provide a prosperous future for all Americans.

We join our colleagues in the business and investment communities in supporting the science-based targets outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement...

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Signatories from UC:
Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Ralph Hexter, Acting Chancellor, University of California, Davis
Howard Gillman, Chancellor, University of California, Irvine
Gene Block, Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
Dorothy Leland, Chancellor, University of California, Merced
Kim Wilcox, Chancellor, University of California, Riverside
Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
Sam Hawgood, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
Henry Yang, Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara
George Blumenthal, Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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No signature (yet):
Janet Napolitano, President, University of California
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Letter: http://secondnature.org/higher-education-climate-action-letter/

News release: http://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/Press-Release_Second-Nature_Open-Letter-from-Higher-Ed-New-Admin-Congress.pdf

Inside Higher Ed article: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/12/21/presidents-sign-climate-change-letter-trump
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Guess we'll have to look for the UC-prez:


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