Green Campus Initiatives

Green Campus Initiatives

In 2007 Fordham pledged to reduce greenhouse gasses by 30% from our baseline year of 2005 as part of the NYC Carbon Challenge started under Mayor Bloomberg. This grew to a commitment to a 40% reduction. As of 2021 we have reduced CO2e by 31.77%.

Learn More About Our Response to the NYC Carbon Challenge

In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the pursuit of wisdom and learning, education of the whole person and respect for the environment, we recognize the value of minimizing our environmental impact.

We will endeavor to design, construct and maintain our buildings, infrastructure, and grounds in a manner that ensures environmental sustainability and demonstrates sustainability best practices in a broad range of areas.

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Green Buildings

All new buildings will be designed from an energy standpoint to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) New Construction Silver rating, ensuring that all new properties are environmentally responsible.

Sustainability News at Fordham

Fordham Makes Princeton Review’s Top Green Colleges List for 2025

Fordham Makes Princeton Review’s Top Green Colleges List for 2025

Fordham has been named to The Princeton Review’s “Top Green Colleges List: 2025 Edition.” The university earned a sustainability score of 87/99 in recognition of its commitment to sustainability on …

New Class Highlights Cities’ Role in Fighting Climate Change

New Class Highlights Cities’ Role in Fighting Climate Change

If humanity is going to survive climate change, many of the solutions are going to come from cities.  Urban areas are currently home to 55% of the world’s population, according …

Reading Philosophy with AI, Salamander Survival, and Reforestation: Grad Students Research Timely Topics

Reading Philosophy with AI, Salamander Survival, and Reforestation: Grad Students Research Timely Topics

In the first gathering of its kind, students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) gathered at the McShane Campus Center on the Rose Hill campus on April 16 to …

Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Spring Update

Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Spring Update

At the Climate Action Summit held April 8 at Rose Hill, several elected officials were on hand to celebrate Fordham’s new role as an EPA grantmaker. U.S. Senate Majority Leader …

Water and Migration: Professor Studies Drought-Impacted Communities in Mali

Water and Migration: Professor Studies Drought-Impacted Communities in Mali

Isaie Dougnon, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Francophone studies and international humanitarian affairs, has spent the last few months running a research project that hits close to home— …

Annual Summit Focuses on Climate Change Leadership

Annual Summit Focuses on Climate Change Leadership

Daylong Event Calls for Grassroots Action and Celebrates Fordham’s Role as EPA Grantmaker We don’t all have to be scientists to fight climate change, a prominent marine biologist and activist …

Where Are They Now? How the Fordham Foundry Helped These Alumni Launch Their Startups

Where Are They Now? How the Fordham Foundry Helped These Alumni Launch Their Startups

Since 2012, the Fordham Foundry has supported scores of students, alumni, faculty, and community members along their journeys as entrepreneurs, from hosting pitch competitions with cash prizes, like the Ram’s …

Professor Finds No Direct Causal Effect of Air Pollution on Severe COVID Symptoms

Professor Finds No Direct Causal Effect of Air Pollution on Severe COVID Symptoms

During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers noticed that people living in areas with higher air pollution were likely to suffer from more severe symptoms of the virus. But was …

Bringing Oysters Back to the Bronx

Bringing Oysters Back to the Bronx

Perched on a skiff bobbing off the shores of City Island one sunny August morning, Kevin Horbatiuk, FCLC ’78, LAW ’81, watched a fellow volunteer with City Island Oyster Reef …

Nature Publishes Fordham Professor’s Research on Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change

Nature Publishes Fordham Professor’s Research on Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change

Fordham professor Marc Conte and fellow researchers have devised a model to predict the impacts of climate change on individual economies worldwide, and the outlook is bleak for the least …

Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Update

Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Update

Last summer, in response to a call from Pope Francis to “take concrete actions in the care of our common home,” Fordham published the Laudato Si’ Action Plan. The document …