NYU launches Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
Its work will include initiating research projects, convening workshops, producing policy briefs and providing seed money for large projects.
New York University (NYU), New York, launched the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection (CEAP), a research unit to inform policy related to societal and scientific concerns.
“The nexus of animal agriculture, climate change and conservation represents one of the most pressing and least understood threats to a sustainable future, and will be a main focal point of the center’s activities,” says Dale Jamieson, the center’s founding director and professor of environmental studies and philosophy. “As climate change has become the dominant environmental issue of our time and the animal protection movement has become more focused on animals used for food, these movements are reuniting. This moment calls for the creation of a formal institution that focuses on integrating environmental and animal protection.”