SA considers support for climate change resolution

11/10/15 3:41pm

The Student Association will be voting on whether to add its name to the Resolution on Climate Change, a petition put forth by the Texas Drought Project. The SA’s endorsement would make it one of 120 organizations and groups who have signed the resolution, bringing the Texas Drought Project closer to its 250 signature goal. 

According to the Texas Drought Project’s website, the resolution calls for the U.S. government to take a stance against the emission of greenhouse gases and in support of the movement away from fossil fuels at the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, to be held this December in Paris. 

The conference aims to arrive at a universal agreement on climate change, following a similar conference in Copenhagen in 2012 that postponed the signing of an agreement until this year, to go into effect in 2020.

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The SA legislation would also call upon the Faculty Senate and the Graduate Student Association to join the SA in their support of the resolution, as well as for the university as a whole to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The resolution would be in line with the 100-Year Sustainability Plan passed by the SA in its 2011-2012 session. According to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, that plan led to a series of actions and resolutions aimed at improving campus sustainability.

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