Climate & Urban Sustainability program

environmental transformation in our region and beyond



Our Mission

CUSP will mobilize the extensive skills, knowledge, experiences and insights available across the UCI campus to create conditions for sustainable urban development and human flourishing by furthering understanding, hastening effective communication and helping to solve the complex environmental challenges of the 21st century climate change, pollution, natural resource degradation and depletion, and natural habitat loss.

Our Vision

We aspire to facilitate genuine environmental transformation in our region and beyond. Through our efforts, we will become a key societal and policy focused component of a universitywide focus on sustainability. Our ultimate aim is to partner with various levels of governance, community organizations, non-governmental friends of the environment, and external funders committed to sustainability, resource protection, environmental justice, and education.

UC Irvine
School of Social Ecology
5300 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-7050