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7.4.2 Strengthen mechanisms for climate resilience development
UNAM is part of the global community that holds the view that innovative mechanisms

for climate change mitigation and adaptation should, now more than ever, be at the
centre of research. Our institutional environment is the best setup to contribute to such

an effort through research and innovation. The University has the necessary human
competence to make a global contribution to finding scientific solutions and reducing

vulnerabilities resulting from climate change effects.

Through advanced scientific technologies and research capabilities, UNAM will
promote and support contributive efforts of the clean development mechanism,

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). The University
will also be engaged through other internationally recognised, legally binding

obligations and initiatives, such as the formulation and implementation of policies,
monitoring and evaluation of climate change periodic reports and development

of climate change response plans; and it will promote and cooperate in the

development, application, diffusion and transfer of greenhouse gas emission
mitigation technologies, practices and processes, support research and systematic
observation organisations, networks and programmes on climate change, and

develop and implement education, training and public awareness programmes on

climate change.

7.5 Institutional Planning and Internationalisation

Institutional planning involves the entire strategic management process of

developing, reviewing, implementing and monitoring the institutional strategy. It
further demonstrates the intergratedness and coordination of operational planning

and long-term planning for the University. Institutional planning informs academic
planning through enrolment planning and coordinating the UNAM space/resource

governance process. Institutional planning is primarily conceptual and research-
oriented in determining current and future University space in terms of the Higher

Education Management Information System (HEMIS) internationally accepted space
standards as well as the effective management and assessment of the University’s

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