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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

Shorna Allred

Highlighting the stories of Black owners of forestland in the Northeast, Shorna is sharing resources and recommending policies to expand access to and support for current or prospective minority landowners facing legacies of discrimination, to bolster equity and conservation.

Learn more about Shorna Allred and her work.

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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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Howarth advises senators to shrink NY’s natural gas options

Cornell professor Robert Howarth advised New York state senators last week to downsize the state’s natural gas pipeline system and to repeal laws that easily connect gas to new homes.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
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News

Where’s the beef? New study explores trade-offs of sustainable beef
A new study shows that it’s possible for the beef industry to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions without increasing costs and still meet global demand for meat. But the strategies to achieve this outcome are largely dependent on what cows consume, where beef is produced, how land is managed, and ways neighboring nations work together — with major implications for borderless agricultural policies that best protect the environment.
  • Department of Global Development
  • Climate Change
  • Environment