The issue of climate change has become a global challenge, and a joint response to this problem has become an urgent necessity at the global level.
Based on the importance of this thorny issue and its multiple direct and indirect negative effects on ecosystems, including oceans and biological diversity, as well as on sustainable livelihoods and sustainable consumption and production patterns,
On September 30, 2015, Lebanon signed the Nationally Determined Contribution of the General Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Lebanon’s contribution presents the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030, and this percentage is divided between a 15 percent reduction as an unconditional goal and an additional 15 percent reduction in emissions conditional on international support.
Whereas most of the environmental problems are due to wrong behavioral patterns that are attributed to the lack of environmental awareness.
Whereas the university believes that the solution to these problems can only be achieved by increasing the environmental awareness of the human being because the latter is an essential element in this environment and the only beneficiary of it and the direct cause of its problems. Therefore, the university has included in its educational decisions many courses that aimed at introducing the environment and its regulations such as environmental law, ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERS, and other courses.
In order to ensure the proper behavior of its students towards their environment and rationalize this behavior, the university has set up programs that contribute to serving the environment with the aim of increasing its students’ knowledge of how to deal with and preserve the environment, increase their awareness of the impact of their activities on the environment and the climate, especially those that affect its degradation.
In addition to this, the university has been explaining and informing its students about the dangers and disasters that may result from climate change, which has become a reality that must be confronted either by adapting to it or by knowing the reasons to mitigate its harmful effects on humans and nature. The first step was establishing an environmental club in 2017 including students from all specializations to make the university environmentally-friendly through sorting and recycling, reducing plastic consumption, securing environmentally friendly alternative energy, and managing violations.
In order to achieve these goals, the university organized training workshops on preparing source-sorting programs.
The objectives of this workshop were:
IUL has taken every measure to meet these goals and adopt government policy concerning climate change.
At last, everyone is taking climate action with great consideration. We have no choice. We all need to act on climate change to secure a future for upcoming generations. Thousands of businesses and cities all around the world have committed to bold climate action. In Lebanon, four summits were organized concerning this issue in Tripoli, sour, Beqaa and in Beirut.