Ben-Gurion University's commitment to research, teaching and making information accessible to the public in Israel and the world in fields of the environment, promoted the establishment of the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change, as a trans-faculty academic center uniting all BGU's researchers engaged in the environmental and sustainability disciplines. The Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at BGU aims to be a leading center for interdisciplinary research and teaching, promoting essential solutions, adapted strategies and policies to deal with the environmental challenges in the present and in the future.
We believe that the destruction of the environment, the damage to climate systems and the depletion of habitats and ecosystems, which significantly reduce our ability to sustain life support systems, oblige us ethically and morally to deal with these topics. Moreover, the complexity of the physical and biotic environments demands cooperation and interactions between diverse academic fields of knowledge from the worlds of life sciences, engineering, health, social sciences, and humanities, and obligates us, as an academic institution, to research and teach these fields. At BGU, we strive for synergy in research and teaching, the pooling of resources, and collaborations among researchers, which can bolster excellence in research, advance leading study programs, and strengthen BGU's national and international contribution
Goals of the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change:
