Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
SDG13 deals with issues related to education on climate change, strengthening resilience to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, integrating climate change measures into national policy, and more. At Lynn University, these efforts take form in a variety of ways from the institution’s hurricane preparedness plan to the integration of climate change into the curriculum, and more.
This report is organized into three sections:
Institutional Initiatives: Refers to ongoing initiatives at the institution that are currently active, occur every year, and relate to SDG13. Wherever possible, statistics are provided to show the impact of this work.
Events/News: Refers to single events or news that occurred during the reporting year of AY21-22 relating to SDG13. These are not recurring, and as such are not part of the long-term initiatives.
Courses: Refers to all the courses in the university’s academic catalogue for the reporting year of AY21-22 that deal with issues related to SDG13.
Goal 13
Institutional Initiatives
Hurricane preparedness plan
Lynn University’s event and emergency management plan, maintained by the Department of Campus Safety, defines procedures for inclement weather, including tropical storms and hurricanes. Lynn University meets the National Weather Service’s “StormReady” requirements. In the event of severe or dangerous weather, the university will inform students and employees about precautions to take or procedures to follow via various emergency notification methods. These may include posting messages to lynn.edu/alert; distributing email, text, or voicemail messages; activating a call center; or providing in-person instruction and guidance.
By maintaining a hurricane preparedness plan and keeping it up to date with federal regulations, Lynn University helps further target 13.1 of SDG13, which focuses on strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.
Climate change in the curriculum
Lynn University’s students engage in discussions pertaining to climate change in a variety of courses, including the Citizenship Project, the Dialogues of Scientific Literacy (DSL), and some environmental science and policy courses. The issue of climate change is embedded into the mandatory core curriculum at the DSL 100 level and is revisted in the DSL 200 level when discussing the environment. Additionally, students in the Citizenship Project course are allowed to choose which of the UN SDGs they would like to focus on throughout their projects, and SDG13 is often chosen by the students as one of importance. This is the case also in the Dialogues of Justice and Civic Life (DJC) 200 course, wherein students choose the SDG that they would like to address throughout the course.
By embedding climate change in the core curriculum of the university, Lynn University helps further target 13.3 of SDG13, which focuses on improving education and awareness-raising on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and impact.