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Accelerating Holistic Climate Solutions

Moonshot thinking

From energy resources, greenhouse gas reductions, carbon capture, and resilience to adaptation, economics, climate justice, and food security.

At CALS, we believe we can feed the planet while also helping to cool it. It’ll take every weapon in our arsenal to fight climate change—a transformation of our food and farm systems, material and manufacturing processes, energy systems, and societies and economies for a safer, healthier, decarbonized world. We’re driving practical solutions to save our planet and ensure no one communities are left behind.

Research Spotlight

Lindsay Anderson

As a part of the Creating Climate-Resilient Futures moonshot faculty cohort, Lindsay will be helping to form a new CALS-wide program on navigating sustainability transitions, leveraging existing Cornell strengths while adding critical new competencies to address challenges in three key domains: renewable energy, sustainable cities, and agri-food systems.

Learn more about Lindsay Anderson and her work.

Professor Lindsay Anderson

Opportunities to support

Faculty, program support & research

CALS globally recognized faculty are the cornerstone of our reputation as a premier institution of scientific learning. Support CALS faculty and graduate students working on a multitude of issues around holistic climate solutions.

Student support & affordability

Scholarships enable Cornell to recruit and enroll the most promising scholars and garner a diverse student population. CALS supports students to ensure their success through programs such as peer mentoring, E3, CALS navigator, and experiential learning opportunities.

Flexible impact

Establishing a named Moonshot fund or supporting the established Accelerating Holistic Climate Solutions Moonshot fund offers CALS leadership the greatest flexibility to take advantage of innovative and emerging opportunities, and will be used to bolster CALS' strengths in support of initiatives focused on accelerating holistic climate solutions.

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Solving the mystery of the cow microbiome
Cows depend on microbes to live. Thousands of different species inhabit the rumen, the largest section of a cow’s four-section stomach. They ferment the grass that cow eats and extract nutrients, providing metabolites essential for the cow to...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Microbial biology
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Soil carbon effectively measured by new, efficient AI model

A new model offers a proof-of-principle for how AI might be used to shed light on obscure biological processes.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change