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See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

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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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The impact of giving

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Grants to support research at nexus of AI, climate science

New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
Meredith Holgerson, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collects a sediment sample from Texas Hollow Pond in central New York.

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A tale of two ponds sheds light on high emissions

The slight differences in depth and light in Mud Pond and Texas Hollow Pond led to surprising differences in carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change