NORTHAMPTON — The city’s school district became the fifth in the nation to adopt the Green New Deal for Schools Resolution, a measure written by Northampton High School students that calls for advocating for ambitious climate-related goals for school districts at the state and federal levels.

The resolution, unanimously approved by the School Committee on June 13, names five different goals for the state to provide funding for in order to further sustainability for public schools. Those goals include:

■Update building and busing infrastructure run on 100% clean energy.

■Make school lunches out of locally-grown produce.

■ Provide job training for positions combating the climate crisis.

■Create climate disaster relief plans for school administration.

■Incorporate climate justice themes into the school curriculum.

“A climate emergency threatens our students, our staff, our school district, our state, our nation, humanity, and the natural world,” the resolution states. “Northampton Public Schools is committed to aggressive climate action in the global effort to halt, reverse, mitigate and prepare for the consequences of the climate crisis.”

NHS students Cosmo Johnson and Luna Burnell-Wojtech gave a presentation advocating for the resolution at the committee’s meeting.

“To be honest, the climate education that I’ve gotten through the district so far has been a lot of reduce, reuse, recycle,” Johnson said. “Although we already have a climate curriculum at Northampton High School, numerous aspects of the climate crisis are not covered.”

Burnell-Wojtech said the school district should step in to provide support to the community in the case of a climate emergency.

“Our school should have a plan to help students recover and use school buildings as a designated relief zone,” Burnell-Wojtech said. “Everyone should be able to have somewhere to go in a climate disaster.”

The four other school districts to pass such a resolution are in Illinois, California, Colorado and Washington, D.C. Like Northampton, three of the other districts are located in prominent college towns (Evanston, Ill.; Berkeley, Calif.; and Boulder, Colo.).

The resolutions are backed by the Sunrise Movement, a political advocacy group that advocates for legislation on climate change. In a release put out by Sunrise announcing the Northampton resolution, the group cited the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act, sponsored in the U.S. Senate by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, as an example of a bill they hope the resolutions will add momentum to.

“This is a smaller scale than at the federal level, but it is still extremely important,” said Burnell-Wojtech. “Youth all over the country have been trying and succeeding to pass this same legislation in their schools.”

The students’ presentation and their resolution received praise from committee members, including Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, who chairs the committee.

“I read your resolution, and I’ve read and written many resolutions,” Sciarra said. “It is, I can easily say, the most comprehensive resolution I have ever seen. It’s really remarkable, and you have citations for everything. Really, really beautifully done.”

Ward 3 committee member Emily Serafy-Cox said she, along with at-large member Aline Davis, attended a meeting of students in the Sunrise Movement while crafting the resolution, and was impressed with their process.

“I really appreciated the discussion, and the logistical nature of how you all are approaching this challenge,” Serafy-Cox said. “It’s not just about passing a resolution and so forth, it’s also about concrete solutions that can be brought for our district that are different from what one might bring for some other district.”

Alexander MacDougall can be reached at amacdougall@gazettenet.com.