BELEM, twenty fifth November, 2025 (WAM) — Khalifa University of Science and Technology joined with the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC) to steer a high-level local weather dialogue for the worldwide larger schooling neighborhood at COP30 Brasil Amazonia in Belem, Brazil.
The dialogue featured a standout panel dialogue workshop targeted on ‘Higher Education Institutions for Climate Action: Innovation, Implementation, Cooperation, and Communication’, emphasising 4 necessary parts of the vital roles of upper schooling establishments. It was chaired and moderated by GAUC’s Chief Youth Officer, Alice Ho, with Deputy Secretary-General of GAUC, Dr. Jian Zhang, as a panel member. Dr. Jian can be Associate Director of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at China’s Tsinghua University.
Representing Khalifa University at this high-level larger schooling workshop, held at UNFCCC Higher Education for Climate Action Pavilion, was Dr. Samuel Mao, Director, ASPIRE Research Institute for Sustainability, and Professor of Practice, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Samuel can be Co-Chair of the UAE Universities Climate Network, which consists of 38 larger schooling establishments of the UAE. After the workshop, Dr. Samuel and Khalifa University’s two different COP30 delegates, Dr. Aisha Al Suwaidi, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, and Mohammad Al Hamadi, a graduate pupil and the primary Emirati to finish a polar ocean expedition just lately, visited GAUC Pavilion, which additionally hosted a UAE Universities Climate Network COP30 session, co-organized by Khalifa University.
During the panel dialogue, Dr. Samuel used his sustainable water extraction from air undertaking for example for instance Khalifa University’s management in each facet of innovation, implementation, cooperation, and communication. He additionally launched Khalifa University’s latest engagements with a number of GAUC member universities, together with mutual visits of college leaders and growth of collaborative analysis and teaching programs. Khalifa University’s dedication to advancing local weather motion and world outreach was acknowledged by the viewers at COP30.
Other members of the panel agreed that universities are engines of climate-related innovation and their roles embrace conducting frontier analysis in areas resembling renewable power, carbon seize, and local weather adaptation. They additionally affirmed that universities are splendid locations to offer interdisciplinary problem-solving, by uniting scientists, engineers, economists, and coverage consultants towards widespread local weather motion targets.
