The role of universities in capacity building under the Paris Agreement

This paper discusses how empowering universities to educate students on climate change could create systems that continue to build countries’ capacities to tackle climate-related problems for decades to come.

The publication presents the following low-cost, high impact activities that could be carried out for harnessing universities' potential to build capacity:

• global engagement of universities and NGOs;
• research collaborations;
• problem-based collaboration;
• improving access to information;
• distance learning; and
• student exchanges.