The solution to climate change will be forged in our universities

Jan 17, 2018

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Thinking ahead … universities are key to humanity's biggest battle – from educating leaders to fostering ground-breaking research. Image: Reuters/Stephen Lam

Peter Salovey

President, Yale University

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Climate change performance for selected top carbon-emitting countries (2016 EPI). Carbon intensity is defined as carbon dioxide emissions per GDP Image: 2016 EPI

Public opinion estimates related to climate change in the United States in 2016. Image: Howe, Mildenberger, Marlon and Leiserowitz

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Former US secretaries of state James Baker and John Kerry at the Yale Climate Conference on 19 September 2017 Image: Yale University/John Hassett

58 percent of Americans think global warming is caused by human activity, the highest level since the survey began in 2008. Image: Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, Rosenthal and Cutler 2017

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