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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022.  200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT CATHERINE LUO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.

Stanford University | California, United States | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9

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" Mentorship and collaboration are two key ingredients to make any vision a reality. The Millennium Fellowship offers both, making it an invaluable experience to advance my project to make a tangible social impact. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Stanford Scope 3 Emissions Pilot

Stanford’s Scope 3 Emissions Program launched in 2021 with the goal of reducing, mitigating, and offsetting various categories of the university’s emissions. The initiative jumpstarted from Stanford's Board of Trustees setting a carbon neutrality goal of 2050. To mitigate emissions from all parts of the supply chain at Stanford and abroad, various methods have been proposed, such as offsets, carbon pricing, and education. My research team, called the Scope 3 Student Working Group, has been conducting analyses on the university’s travel emissions, compiling best practices of other universities’ air travel fee programs and academic literature on carbon pricing, and weighing various mitigation measures to incentivize climate-related behavior change. The ultimate goal of our group is to influence individual environmental consciousness and institutional decisions towards supply chain emissions at Stanford and beyond.

About the Millennium Fellow

An aspiring environmental advocate and leader, Cathy Luo is a senior pursuing a B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Earth Systems. From air pollution in China to environmental injustices in Chicago, she has witnessed how environmental degradation exacerbates social inequality. Her lived experiences motivated her to pursue environmental economics, with interests in renewable energy policy and sustainable development in Southeast Asia. On campus, she served as the co-director of Students for a Sustainable Stanford and undergraduate representative on Stanford's Scope 3 Working Group. Driven by a deep dedication to create an equitable and sustainable world, she hopes to become the administrator of an international agency in the future.

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