The Climate and Environmental Sustainability Center

Brings under one roof all areas of academic activity in the fields of the climate crisis, environmental issues, and environmental sustainability, and promotes the university’s activities in these areas. The center aims to develop and promote the following activities:

Research – award doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, enhance research collaborations within and outside the university, hold scientific seminars, lecture series and conferences.

Teaching – provide cross-faculty courses dealing with the climate crisis, and with environmental and sustainability issues across all students from all faculties and academic disciplines.

Promote environmental innovation of applied projects such as renewable energies, food security, greenhouse mitigation technologies among others.

Environmental activities with and within the community – joint activities on and off the campus with the university students, activities for school students, online lectures for the public and more.

Researchers from various environmental fields (such as Geography, Natural Resource Management, Biology, Marine Sciences) are involved in the center activities, but also from broader adjacent disciplines (such as Sociology, Law, Political Science or Public Health).

This is how the center embodies the University’s profound commitment to raise awareness and contribute to the environment, to the community and to the Israeli society as a whole.

Head: Prof. Shlomit Paz, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Environmental Sciences.

Administrative Secretary: Bracha Gross

Contact details: Email – ces_center@univ.haifa.ac.il; Tel. +972-4-8259617