Overview
The University acts on climate change through education, measurement and practical mitigation, within the framework of Egypt's national climate strategy.
The University pursues this goal across its teaching, its scientific research, its campus operations and its service to the community. The sections below set out how it delivers the goal, the activities held during the year, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitment.
How the University delivers this goal
- Delivers climate education and public-awareness campaigns.
- Pursues energy efficiency as its principal mitigation measure, within Egypt's national climate strategy.
- Tracks its carbon footprint across campus energy and transport.
- Plants trees and greens its campus with community partners.
- Participates in climate dialogue and collaborates with NGOs on adaptation.
Activities in 2023/24
- The University continued its carbon-footprint improvement programme, mapping greenhouse-gas emissions from campus and residence electricity and gas use and from its transport fleet as the basis for targeted reductions.
Research & publications in 2023/24
During 2023/24, researchers at Future University in Egypt published 24 Scopus-indexed research outputs that contribute to this goal, across its faculties and research centre. Representative works include:
- Advancements in low-carbon concrete as a construction material for the sustainable built environment. Althoey, F. and 3 more (2023). Developments in the Built Environment · cited 282 times.
- Advancements in adsorption based carbon dioxide capture technologies- A comprehensive review. Das, A. and 11 more (2023). Heliyon · cited 99 times.
- Solar energy storage to chemical: Photocatalytic CO2 reduction over pristine metal-organic frameworks with mechanistic studies. Shah, S.S.A. and 9 more (2024). Journal of Energy Storage · cited 81 times.
- MoS2/Ti3CO2 heterostructure-based ceramics as promising electrode material for high-performance monovalent energy storage devices. Ali, S. and 10 more (2024). Ceramics International · cited 77 times.
Policies supporting this goal
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