Climate change

Currently, climate change is a reality, as numerous scientific studies have shown. However, the fight and the strategies to mitigate it remain essential and paramount. Reducing our carbon footprint is, therefore, also a matter of prime concern for the University. There is also a need to go further and plan actions and strategies to adapt to this change, to increase the University’s resilience while reducing its vulnerabilities. According to recent climate change studies, the main forthcoming changes are the increase in extreme temperatures, periods of drought combined with storms, access to energy and saline intrusion, among others.

Pompeu Fabra University remains firmly committed to the fight against climate change, through the UPF Climate Emergency Board. In addition, the University has undertaken to reduce its carbon footprint by 25% by 2025, 55% by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2040.

These are undoubtedly ambitious goals, in line with cutting-edge initiatives that will require the involvement of all of us. To make this possible, the UPF 2021-2024 Sustainability Plan includes several measures to reduce the University’s emissions. 

In addition, as a necessary step towards mitigating our carbon footprint and its effect on climate change, UPF periodically calculates its carbon footprint in order to be able to address the measures to be taken to reduce it.

Reference data are taken from 1996, since it was the first year in which UPF could be considered to have been implemented territorially. The first assessment of the evolution of the University’s carbon footprint took place in 2018, and the last was in 2025. On the Carbon footprint report page you can read a brief summary of this evolution and read the complete reports!