Due to geographic similarities, California and Mexico face similar challenges in addressing climate change from a social justice perspective.
The Mexico Alliance with the University of California launched the Climate Ambassadors initiative, a bilateral program that aims to improve the training of Californian and Mexican students in environmental matters.
Due to geographic similarities, California and Mexico face similar challenges in addressing climate change from a social justice perspective. The power of universities to support, strengthen and build a social movement that solves the climate crisis through science, systems thinking and socio-ecological justice is imminent.
Climate justice, adaptation and resilience, as well as intergenerational justice, are at the center of the agenda of COP 27 in Egypt.
To face the climate challenges that both the United States and Mexico face, intergenerational solidarity is required, incorporating the issue of social justice and adopting a binational perspective, Isabel Studer stated yesterday.
Rector Enrique Graue Wiechers received the visit of his counterpart from the University of California (UC) Merced, from the United States, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, in which they agreed to strengthen student mobility and promote research in critical areas such as migration and inequality , smart agriculture, clean energy and climate justice.
The Center for Climate Justice and Alianza Mx launched a student exchange program that promotes research on the subject.
#AristeguienVivo | We talked with Dr. Isabel Studer, Director of Alianza México at the University of California.
An agreement was signed that formalizes and endorses the cooperation between both Universities.
The rector of the University of California Merced (UC Merced), Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz, and the interim rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Dr. Cecilia Anaya Berríos, met to sign a memorandum of understanding that seeks promote student exchange and academic mobility between both institutions.
Looking ahead to COP27, the specialist also considered that Mexico should be a leader in resilience and mobilization of global climate finance.
From Egypt, Isabel Studer Dir. of Alianza MX of the University of California details what happens in this international event.