President Steven Knapp of The George Washington University created the presidential task force on sustainability in October 2007 and charged the group of students, faculty, and staff to spend the academic year developing recommendations to enhance GW’s academic initiatives in the areas of environmental stewardship and climate change, as well as examining and recommending improvements in relevant University policies.

“GW is committed to operating, in all its programs and activities, in ways that express its responsibilities as a pre-eminent institutional citizen of the nation’s capital,” said Knapp. The task force will submit its report in June 2008.