SDG 13.3: Environmental Education Including Disaster Planning

SDG 13.3.1

Local education programs or campaigns on climate change risks

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. 

SDG 13.3.2

Climate Action plan

Since the beginning of its foundation, the university had a commitment to a climate action plan in order to adapt to the effects of climate change. Therefore, it took this into consideration as we can see in its design and took into account the adoption of green spaces to alleviate the heat of the sun and increase the proportion of oxygen in the air, so that the percentage of green spaces reached more than 75% of the total area of land allocated to the campus, i.e. about 103,000 cubic meters and includes more than 2,200 trees. The adoption of green spaces was not limited to the exterior spaces only, but also it was designed in a way that overlaps with the buildings intended for students. 

SDG 13.3.3

Co-operative planning for climate change disasters

Within the framework of the challenge to the impacts of climate change, the university has been cooperating with the local community, especially with the municipalities, on activities that contribute to adaptation and reducing the risks of climate change, so it organized several campaigns, including the Cleanling Campaign along the southern shore in cooperation with the Union of Municipalities of Tire.

SDG 13.3.4

Informing and supporting the local or regional government in local climate change disaster/risk early warning and monitoring

Research has been carried out with students that have informed the government on early warning and monitoring of climate change disasters, for example, Mahdi Saleh earned BE and ME degrees in computer and communication engineering from the Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL) in 2012 and 2015. During his master’s studies, he worked with the National Center for Remote Sensing to develop an automated system for measuring snow-covered regions using satellite-based remote sensing products

SDG 13.3.5

Collaborating with NGOs on climate adaptation

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,