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2024</span></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <span class="field-content">The four-day event in New York City underscored the university’s commitment to contributing to global leadership efforts to address the climate crisis. </span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even clickable"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-image2"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/news/reshaping-yale-new-wave-quantum-physics-engineering-and-materials"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://sustainability.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_thumbnail/public/upper_science_hill_development_groundbreaking.png?itok=qOYpKJBG" width="276" height="194" alt="Group of Yale officials flinging shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h3 class="field-content"><a 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