UB’s College of Public Affairs and Jacob France Institute in the Merrick School of Business will serve as lead university partner on a new USA Sustainable Cities Initiative (USA-SCI) led by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Climate Nexus. Baltimore has been selected as a model city for the project, which supports the UN’s newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals, a series of global aspirations and priorities designed to take on major sustainable development challenges. The University’s role, as established by SDSN, will be to provide support and guidance as the city expands its capabilities regarding sustainable development.

UB’s efforts in the USA-SCI initiative in Baltimore will be led by Ivan Sascha Sheehan, associate professor and director of the M.S. in Negotiations and Conflict Management program in the College of Public Affairs, and Seema Iyer, associate director of the Jacob France Institute and research assistant professor in the Merrick School of Business. UB will collaborate with University of Maryland National Center for Smart Growth and Communities Without Boundaries International.

Learn more: http://www.ubalt.edu/news/news-releases.cfm?id=2357