Mission, Vision, and Strategic Framework
Mission
Our mission is to drive climate scholarship and action from local to global scales, harnessing Penn’s formidable strengths across its 12 schools, health system, centers, and institutes to elevate climate work across campus and catalyze high-impact initiatives that position Penn as a premier hub for climate solutions.
Vision
We integrate: Penn Climate is the home for climate work at Penn where anyone who wants to engage can find connection, support, and community. We provide opportunities for connection and foster interdisciplinary collaboration and excellence.
We elevate: Penn Climate is a force multiplier, driving outcomes that exceed the sum of our parts. We inspire collective inter- and transdisciplinary scholarship and action.
We impact: Penn Climate drives high-impact, ambitious initiatives to tackle the climate crisis at local to global scales. We leverage our many unique strengths to make Penn a veritable climate solutions hub.
Strategic Framework
Penn students and postdocs face a world beset by climate change and environmental degradation and are the future leaders who will tackle this problem. We must continue to ensure that their training is first-rate and that they feel the agency and hope to create and implement solutions to these crises.
While Penn faculty are already doing world-class work to improve climate outcomes, our scholarship is elevated by further breaking down silos, strengthening connections and community between faculty, students, and staff, recruiting and retaining more leading experts in climate-related fields, and communicating our excellence both within Penn and to the outside world.
Penn is becoming the leading academic authority on numerous areas of focus in relation to climate. With strategic investments in interdisciplinary projects that leverage these strengths, Penn Climate has established the Climate Solutions Hub to tackle grand challenges, break down silos, attract moonshot-level funding, and project Penn’s excellence to the outside world.