The Climate Change Initiative brings people together from across the University to catalyze evidence-based climate action through our research, education and community engagement.
The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) includes more than 60 faculty members and 10 staff from 20 different academic departments and all five colleges at UMass Lowell. Student leaders also participate in CCI events, retreats, and decision-making. We use a systems thinking framework to explore interactions between expertise and forge new programs, projects, and policy.
Our research and expertise reflects our disciplinary diversity and the unifying theme of building new knowledge to catalyze evidence-based climate action.
Research, development, and implementation of education and training for climate action.
Helping society prepare and build capacity to manage climate impacts.
Sharing our expertise with decision-makers at all levels of government, the private sector, and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Analyzing the impact of the private sector on climate action.
Determining the impact of climate change, fossil fuels, and the energy transition on human health.
Examining complex relationships between humans and the environment through the humanities, arts, and sciences.
Developing innovative ways to communicate with audiences from youth to academic peers and policymakers.
Examining the social, political, and economic drivers of, and responses to, climate change.
