Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Mahidol University strives on being a leader in sustainability in response to the United Nations Sustainability Development Agenda 2030. The university has developed academic activities, research, and people for sustainable communities in consideration of efficient uses of resources, social equality, and better life quality of its faculty, staff, students, and surrounded communities with its 4 sustainability strategies; Research and Innovation, Education, Community and Social Participation, and Management. All activities should minimize pollution production as it is challenging to control global temperature not to rise over 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial evolution era, in order to avoid the effects of current climate change, and try to limit the increase of global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Mahidol University conducts activities that promotes decrease of greenhouse gas directly and indirectly, while create campaigns and awareness for people to realize its importance and cooperate in measure to reduce greenhouse gas emission. Other measures are on increasing the rate of the greenhouse gas absorption by adding green spaces horizontally and vertically. Moreover, in order to handle with natural disasters, planning and readiness are always required to cope with climate change and its effects, according to the thirteenth goal of Sustainable Development Goal
