BALTIMORE, July 25 (UPI) -- Johns Hopkins University officials announced a new program that's designed to aggressively cut the school's greenhouse gas emissions.
Johns Hopkins University President William Brody said the school will seek to become a driving force in the development of solutions to climate change.
"Johns Hopkins is eager to rise to this immense challenge," Brody said in a Tuesday e-mail message to students, faculty and staff. "We must forge new knowledge, use that knowledge to develop and implement solutions, and pass along that knowledge so that our students will have the necessary tools to help solve our problems."
Brody cited what he called "near-unanimous agreement in the scientific community that the emission of greenhouse gases caused by human activity" is causing global warming.
"I believe that sustainable solutions to the global climate change problem will require both changes in individual behavior and cultural changes," he said. "Johns Hopkins will take a leadership role in discovering both practical and innovative changes and will promote their adoption."
Although the pace of reductions will be determined by such considerations as the availability of new technology and costs, he said the university's ultimate goal is that of carbon neutrality.
