# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-04-28T14:13:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Story by emmaa.cooke 

UNC’s annual Climate Change Symposium is back after a five year hiatus. Previously hosted by a committee of faculty, this year marked the first time student organizations led the event, which works to encourage collaboration and dialogue towards more sustainable solutions to the climate crisis.

About a hundred students, faculty, and community members gathered at Dey Hall on UNC’s campus last week to hear from leading climate researchers in North Carolina. The dean for UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences Jim White opened the event by describing the climate issue as an ethical one. 

“Until one generation is willing to sacrifice for the next generation, we’re never going to solve this problem,” White said. “My generation didn’t do it. I will admit that. I’m sorry I’m passing this on to the students here in the audience. Don’t make the same mistake. This is an intergenerational issue, climate change. And until we change our frame of time, we’re never going to be able to deal with this, and we’ll always put the next generation at risk.”

The cross-campus faculty group, Carolina Climate Scientists Committee, originally hosted the symposium for a decade until 2020. This year, current student groups wanted to bring it back to life, said UNC PhD student and Climate Crisis Committee Co-Chair Maya Powell, expressing how climate activism on campus stems from passion, but also necessity. 

“UNC boasts at being one of the top five public universities, right? And we’re always saying how great UNC is,” Powell said. “And I think that in terms of a lot of climate action, that’s really driven by students and it’s not very much at the institutional level. And so I think there needs to be a crossover of both, right?” 

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