From its founding, Second Nature has worked to expand higher education’s ability to solve pressing sustainability challenges. Since 2006, that focus has been aimed at addressing the largest environmental challenge that civilization has faced: global climate change. This was the launch year of the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments, now the longest standing voluntary carbon reduction program in the world, and through it the Climate Leadership Network of over 600 universities and colleges formed.
2019-2022 Strategic Plan
Our 2019-2022 Strategic Plan focuses on the imperative for exponential growth in climate progress to work towards 50% decarbonization in the US economy by 2030 based on advice from the best available science. This three year plan focuses on supporting network performance and cross-sector activity with the core of our strategy centered around the expansion of valued climate services.
We will continue activating more schools as climate leaders and driving climate action with other sectors, but need “better and more of it” within this 11-year window of opportunity to act. Leveraging higher education’s innovative research and partnership strengths will be key to proactively overcome the climate emergency.
Read Our 2019-2022 Strategic Plan
Higher Education Sector as Climate Accelerator
A visual background document about the higher education sector as a climate accelerator.
Impact Reports & Financial Statements
Click on the button below to learn more about the impact Second Nature has made over the past several years by reading our annual impact reports. You can also access other similar reports on this page for both the Climate Leadership Network and the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3). If you are looking for our financial profile and statements, you can find that information on this same page as well.