Partners - University of California Alianza MX

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEMWIDE PROGRAM

Climate Ambassadors

Meet our Partners

California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA)

The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) has led California in creating and implementing some of the most progressive environmental policies in America, from negotiating the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), to launching the Green Chemistry Initiative. CalEPA has also established Environmental Justice programs, adopted a Tribal Policy, and expanded enforcement efforts. CalEPA was formally established on July 17, 1991 although its foundation was laid decades earlier through the hard work of multiple administrations.
CalEPA’s mission it restore, protect and enhance the environment to ensure public health, environmental quality and economic vitality. They developed, implement and enforce environmental laws that regulate air, water and soil quality, pesticide use and waste recycling and reduction.

Conservation International

Founded in 1987, Conservation international (CI) has worked to highlight and maintain the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. With a vision of a healthy world in which societies are committed to caring for nature. This organization combines fieldwork and scientific innovations, policy, and finance to be able to protect the ecosystem and habitats. With their work, CI has helped protect more than 6 million square kilometers of land and sea in more than 70 countries.

Working alongside governments, businesses and communities, CI guides towards smart decisions about the environment, therefore protecting human welfare and heritage. Fighting for the application of sustainable ways of productions and products coming from sustainable sources. Nowadays, there are offices in more than 24 countries and a global network of thousands of partners.

Iniciativa Climática de México Climate Initiative Mexico

This Organization is focused on directing funds strategically into studies and analysis of public policy that contribute to the reduction of emissions to minimize climate change. With nationally and internationally collected funds, ICM selects investing priorities, accompanied by strategic planning and consultation from the government and experts on climate change mitigation.

Possessing great influence in the decision-making process on climate change topics over the public and private sector, and socially, ICM pushes for the implantation of ambitious actions to mitigate climate change. With the vision of transforming Mexico into a lider in a global scale and be an example in gas emission and greenhouse effects reduction while promoting low carbon growth.

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) is a private, non-profit institution of higher education founded with the purpose of contributing to the comprehensive development of Mexico through human formation, teaching, and scientific research.
ITAM seeks to contribute to the integral development of the individual and to the advancement of a freer, more just, and more prosperous society. It aspires to become a true academic community: a center of excellence and academic freedom, and an autonomous institution for high-quality research. ITAM aims to educate individuals capable of acting ethically, knowledgeably, rationally, responsibly, critically, and with strong social commitment.

Mujeres en Energía Renovable México Women in Renewable Energy Mexico

MERM unites professional and expert women in the renewable energy sector with the duty of learning, sharing knowledge and achievements while inciting new ideas and initiatives. Promoting female participation in a sector with majority of male presence through different strategies like program inclusion, courses, workshops, and conferences.

One of the missions of MERM is to create awareness in companies about the importance of the female figure within the directive and management groups. In addition, promoting social, educational, economic, and technological initiatives to achieve emission reduction goals through renewable energy projects, female empowerment, and communities with limited access to energy resources. This organization works to guarantee a responsible use of natural resources to be able to fight against climate change. Finally, MERM produces educational content and a social media network with more than 3,100 members, conformed by students and academics, researchers, companies, public and private institutions.

World Resource Institute MX

Founded in 1982, WRI is a nonprofit multinational organization focused on guiding the planet to a more sustainable pathway. Working alongside government, business, and civil society to implement practical solutions for the improvement of the environment and human life. The center of attention is on four cross-cutting centers: Business, Economics, Equity, and Finance. These centers are applied to face seven urgent challenges: Food, Forests, Water, Ocean, Cities, Energy and Climate. Worldwide, WRI has over 1,200 staff members in 12 international offices working in more than 50 countries.

WRI Mexico follows the mission of the global organization, transforming great ideas into action. Consequently, linking environment conservation, economic opportunities, and human welfare. The team strengthens the program through analysis and design of solutions with the four cross-cutting perspectives. Currently, WRI MX is focused on four of the seven urgent challenges: Forests, Cities, Energy and Climate. Mainly collaborating with WRI offices in the USA, China, India, Brazil, and Indonesia.

Governors’ Climate and Forest Task Force (GCF Task Force)

The Governor’s Climate and Forest (GCF) Task Force is a subnational collaboration of 45 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and promote realist pathways to forest maintaining rural development.
The netwrok is founded on the premise that state and provicial leadership—from Governors to Secretaries of key agencies to critical technical civil servants—must be engaged in the fight against climate change.

Industrias Peñoles

Plastic Oceans

Plastic Oceans International is a US-based nonprofit organization dedicated to ending plastic pollution and fostering sustainable communities worldwide.
“Storytelling can spark systemic change”. They harness the power of film to educate, engage, and inspire action. Combining visual storytelling with community-led dialogue, our model scales circular solutions that shift mindsets, change consumer behavior, corporate practices, and influence public policy at every level. Guided by the principle that global change begins with local action, the work of Plastic Oceans is grounded in four core pillars: Education, Activism, Advocacy, and Science.

University of California

UC San Diego Bioregional Center

Brings people and organizations together to collaboratively study and equitably improve how neighborhoods, cities, and regions function. The UC San Diego Bioregional Center provides a transdisciplinary workspace and knowledge networking hub for theory-building, civically engaged research, innovation, pedagogy, and communication.

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR)

The UC ANR shares science-based information and practices to improve lives and livelihoods. UC ANR have extended UC’s research beyond its 10 campuses to all 58 California counties, providing local expertise, partnerships, and practical solutions in agriculture and natural resources, wildfire resilience, environmental stewardship, food systems and nutrition, and youth and community development.

UNAM

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is Mexico’s largest and most prestigious public university and a leading institution in Latin America for higher education, research, and cultural engagement. Founded in 1910, UNAM is committed to advancing knowledge, fostering critical thinking, and contributing to Mexico’s social, scientific, and cultural development.

UNAM offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs across disciplines such as sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, arts, and health. Its strong research ecosystem spans key areas including climate change, sustainability, environmental sciences, energy, biodiversity, public health, technology and innovation, social inequality, education, and public policy, addressing both national and global challenges.
As an autonomous public university, UNAM promotes academic freedom, social responsibility, and inclusion. It plays a central role in knowledge generation for public policy, scientific advancement, and sustainable development, while also serving as a major cultural institution through museums, publications, and artistic initiatives.

Universidad Marista de Mérida

Widu

At Widu, we believe that climate change is a collective challenge that requires both individual and systemic action. For this reason, they have developed technological tools, educational programs, and collaborative spaces that help people understand and reduce their environmental impact through a carbon inequality perspective.
Widu aims to transform habits, inspire conscious decision-making, and build an active climate citizenship. Their mission is to make climate action accessible, informed, and relevant for everyone.