January 22, 2018
From Dr. Quint Newcomer, ALAP director:
On behalf of ALAP partners in Costa Rica, I am really excited to be attending Second Nature’s 2018 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit in Tempe, AZ February 4-6.
In Tempe, I will be seeking to initiate conversations with institutions of higher education that are interested to develop their own unique carbon offset programs together with our Costa Rican partner institutions. ALAP programs build relationships between colleges and universities and the communities in Costa Rica through integrated programs helping to capture carbon, secure long-term water security and food security, and stimulate sustainable rural economic development.
From their website:
“Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network, will host the 2018 Summit focused on cross-sectoral collaboration, and grand solutions to the climate challenge. Higher education has been leading on addressing the climate crisis with more than 600 institutions committed to carbon neutrality through the President’s Climate Leadership Commitments. It’s now time to turn the cross-sector alignment initiated by the We Are Still In (WASI) coalition – hundreds of businesses, investors, cities, and institutions of higher education in the US committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement – into performance and action.”