At Binghamton University, Binghamton 2 Degrees is uniting Binghamton University and the greater Binghamton community to envision a resilient future under the looming threat of two degrees of warming. Through storytelling, arts, scenario-based workshops, and interdisciplinary collaboration, the program engages diverse stakeholders to address local climate challenges such as severe flooding, migration, and public health crises through the lens of climate justice.
SUNY Cortland hosted the 2025 NYS Envirothon on May 28-29, where over 250 students statewide tackled environmental challenges. The competition focused on forest stewardship in the Adirondack Park, with students developing policy solutions for climate change, natural disaster response, and forest health.
| Year | Recommended activities | Status |
| 1 | Integrate sustainability into new student, staff, and faculty orientations and include position specific information in onboarding documents. | Not Started |
| 1 | Work with Indigenous Nations and disadvantaged communities to address sustainability and climate change and to add to a broad-based climate and sustainability movement that includes marginalized groups. | Not Started |
| 1 | Encourage student outdoor, environmental, and sustainability clubs, including those with peer-to-peer education programs. | Launched or underway |
| 1 | Seek funding for flexible eco-rep, eco-ambassador, and other peer-to-peer programs. | Not Started |
| 1 | Develop deeper connections between sustainability and DEI offices on campuses through regularly scheduled meetings, joint events, and programs and exchanges of ideas. | Launched or underway |
| 1 | Maintain and expand paid Empire State Service Corps opportunities for SUNY students to work with communities on climate action. | 100% Complete |
| 1 | Maintain and expand SUNY participation in the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) and other high-level convenings on climate and sustainability issues. | Launched or underway |
| 2 | Conduct periodic surveys – including in the biennial Student Satisfaction Survey to be implemented in Spring 2026 -- to measure SUNY student, faculty, and staff awareness of energy efficiency, waste reduction, low-carbon commuting practices, and other measures of engagement with sustainability issues. | Launched or underway |
| 2 | Build mutually beneficial and reciprocal community partnerships through outreach campaigns around environmental issues open to faculty, staff, and students (e.g., citizen science efforts, students helping with community clean energy or weatherization, resiliency plans, pollution tracking and mapping, community composting, transit). | Not Started |
| 2 | Offer periodic tours and signage of SUNY facilities and ongoing projects to help the public better understand the sustainability efforts and how SUNY invests public funds for a better future. | Not Started |
| 2 | Actively participate in “blue-green” labor and environmental coalitions that seek to advance climate investments' social and economic benefits, building on such efforts as Cornell’s Climate Jobs Initiative. | 50% Complete |
| 2 | Create public-facing climate education materials. | Not Started |
| 2 | Sponsor regular sustainability events, from speakers to tree plantings, open to the campus and larger community. | 50% Complete |