UM joins other Southeastern Conference schools, including Auburn University and the University of Arkansas, in signing the Second Nature Climate Commitment, which acknowledges higher education’s key role in shaping a sustainable society.

Second Nature, a nonprofit that collaborates specifically with higher education institutions on work of this kind, offers a climate commitment, carbon commitment and resiliency commitment.

The climate commitment, the most comprehensive of the three, has two main focuses: tracking carbon emissions to achieve carbon neutrality and creating a plan to address climate resiliency. This work will take place over three years.

Source: University of Mississippi News