International Campus, Zhejiang University is always committed into pilot tasks to lead the green campus construction in China. In 2019, the Library and the Learning and Teaching Building North A of the International Campus had been awarded the LEED O+M platinum certification. This means that the International Campus, Zhejiang University, has become the first university in the world that have passed the LEED v4.1 ARC platinum certification.

What humans can do to make contribution to influence global climate is to change ratios of greenhouse gas, aerosol (fine particulate matter) and cloud in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gas and aerosol will impact the amounts of inward solar radiation and outward infrared (thermal) radiation—part of Earth energy balance, which means global climate system can be interfered by controlling proportion and features of greenhouse gas and aerosol.