Make Your Campus, Community Center,
Retirement Community, Place of Worship
or Business, Kyoto Compliant

Responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions falls on every one of us. One way to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to set the minimal goal of meeting the Kyoto Protocol. This means that a plan must be developed that will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of your campus, et al. by 7-9% below 1990 levels by 2102.

Think its impossible, it is not!

Read on for Harvard University's student movement, Harvard Students United For Action On Climate Change (UACC), which aims to get the university to become Kyoto Compliant.

HARVARD STUDENTS UNITED FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
c/o Gabrielle Dreyfus
274 Eliot Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-493-2392

NEWS RELEASE 5/02/00

For More Information:
Gabrielle Dreyfus, 617-493-2392
Email: gdreyfus@fas.harvard.edu

This Week Over 1,300 Members of the Harvard Community Challenge Harvard President Rudenstine to Commit Publicly To Reducing Harvardòs Greenhouse Gas Pollution -- Other University Presidents & Corporate CEOs Have Already Made Such Public Commitments.

CAMBRIDGE, MA: Harvard Students United for Action on Climate Change (UACC) submitted a letter and petition with more than 1,300 signatures to Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine today, asking him to make a public commitment to reducing Harvardòs greenhouse gas emissions to at least seven percent below 1990 levels by 2010, a target and timetable agreed to by President Clinton when he signed the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change in 1998.

"We are asking President Rudenstine to join with other university and corporate leaders who have already made public commitments to reducing their institutionsò greenhouse gas emissions," said Gabrielle Dreyfus, a Harvard College junior and spokesperson for UACC, a new organization of Harvard undergraduate and graduate/professional students dedicated to reducing Harvardòs emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. "We do not want Harvard lagging behind other campuses such as Tufts on this issue."

Tufts University President John DiBiaggio made a public commitment to reducing Tufts carbon dioxide emissions by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012 in April 1999. According to an article in Newsweek magazine (4/24 issue), Royal Dutch/Shell is reducing emissions of greenhouse gases at its plants by 2002 to a projected 25 percent below the levels of 1990. Dupont is cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent from their 1991 levels by this year.

In addition to the support from Harvard students, faculty, staff and alumni, this week the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council and the Kennedy School Student Government passed resolutions in support of the UACC campaign goal. UACC student leaders are now asking for the advice and cooperation of City of Cambridge officials who are seeking to reduce Cambridgeòs greenhouse gas emissions.

"Harvard professors have done a tremendous amount to inform the world about the health, economic, environmental and other risks of global climate change," Dreyfus said. "We are asking President Rudenstine to match their commitment and help set an example for the world that it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increasing energy efficiency and using cleaner energy without harming the bottom line."