Climate Action Program
Climate Action Program
The global climate crisis continues to intensify as a result of the historical and indiscriminate use of fossil fuels, high levels of industrialization, and current mobility models based primarily on petroleum products. This scenario has led to a sustained increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases, raising the planet's average temperature and generating increasingly severe impacts, including extreme heat waves, prolonged droughts, torrential rains, loss of biodiversity, and negative effects on human health, food security, and economic stability.
In response to this situation, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León maintains the UANL Climate Action Program (PAC-UANL), a comprehensive institutional strategy aimed at mitigating emissions, strengthening climate adaptation, and consolidating a university culture committed to sustainability. This program is part of the institution's responsible management model and is aligned with its core functions of teaching, research, innovation, and community engagement.
A strategic component of the program is the conservation of the university's natural capital. Of the 3,812 hectares occupied by the UANL, 96.8% have well-preserved vegetation cover, allowing it to absorb slightly more than 500,000 tons of CO₂ equivalent per year, functioning as a significant carbon sink. Thanks to this carbon sequestration capacity and the measures implemented to reduce emissions, the University maintains a positive carbon balance.
In the area of adaptation, the UANL has developed actions to address its high climate vulnerability, stemming from its geographic location in a region prone to heat waves and extreme weather events such as severe droughts and intense rainfall. These threats pose risks to infrastructure, academic continuity, and the health and safety of the university community. Therefore, the UANL Adaptation Plan (PAC-UANL) incorporates resilient infrastructure, risk management systems, ecosystem conservation, and nature-based solutions.
The program has strengthened institutional water security through technologies for the use of alternative water sources, including rainwater harvesting and recovery of condensate water in air conditioning systems, helping to reduce pressure on the conventional supply.
96.8 % del territorio de la UANL cuenta con cobertura vegetal en buen estado de conservación.
Likewise, the conservation of biodiversity and tree planting days with native species increase the ecological resilience of campuses, improve the urban microclimate, capture carbon and generate healthy recreational spaces for the community.
The PAC-UANL also promotes climate education and social participation through courses, workshops, seminars, and collaborative projects with governments, businesses, and civil organizations, expanding the impact of climate action beyond the university environment.
Aligned with the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17, the Climate Action Program consolidates the Autonomous University of Nuevo León as a national and international benchmark in the construction of resilient, low-carbon institutions committed to the future of the planet.
The UANL has a carbon reservoir with an estimated capacity to store a little over 500,000 tons of CO₂ equivalent.
In 2025, UANL recorded a positive carbon balance of 485,000 tons of CO₂ equivalent
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