Virginia Commonwealth University has created a new position, director of sustainability, to guide the university toward climate neutrality. Earlier this year, President Eugene Trani had signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, an initiative to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century.
Jacek Ghosh, a visiting community scholar in VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, was appointed to fill the position. The Canada native will conduct an inventory of all VCU greenhouse gas emissions and then develop an “institutional climate action plan.”
“It is my hope that sustainability becomes an integral component of the academic, administrative, clinical, operational and research activity VCU engages in every day, Ghosh said. “I would like to see sustainability become ingrained in VCU’s DNA as a matter of course.” More.