{"id":138128,"date":"2022-03-24T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=138128"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:12","slug":"a-vegan-campus-by-2030-is-too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/03\/24\/a-vegan-campus-by-2030-is-too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A vegan campus by 2030 is too little, too late\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The board of Erasmus University recently announced a plan to make the campus vegan by 2030. Such a marked delay, as in other aspects of its sustainability strategy, signals EUR doing too little, too late. Like many other universities, the university is still in denial about the urgency and seriousness of the environmental crisis. We need leadership that acknowledges the facts of the crisis and takes measures in proportion to the scale of the problem.<\/p>\n

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A vegan wrap at campus restaurant Vitam.<\/span><\/p>

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According to Ellen van Schoten, who oversees the Executive Board\u2019s sustainability portfolio, the campus should be vegan by 2030. To be clear, going vegan is a good move: in 2018, agriculture accounted for 18,57 million tons of carbon dioxide and 11,89 million tons of methane in the Netherlands alone<\/a> \u2013 mostly from cattle rearing<\/a>. But announcing a plan to go vegan in 2030 just days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its devastating new report <\/a>on the unfolding climate disaster is about as appropriate as announcing a plan to introduce mask mandates by 2025 the day after the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\t

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