Overview
Low-Hanging Fruits
UPLB IdSC for Integrated Natural Resources and Environment Management (INREM)
UPLB Interdisciplinary Life Cycle Assessment Laboratory
S&T Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, and Climate Change Adaptation
Integrated Waste Management Innovations
Where We Can Collaborate
  • Building a road map to make UPLB a low-carbon university
  • Institutionalizing the Greenhouse Gas Inventory
  • Restorative, regenerative, sustainable, and profitable projects to address climate change
  • Community-based inventory of bamboo resources
  • Establishment of industrial bamboo plantations
UPLB AGORA's other focus areas
Future Communities & Institutions

UPLB Interdisciplinary Studies Center (IdSC) for Integrated Natural Resources and Environment Management (INREM)

  • an interdisciplinary program that addresses the “continued degradation of the environment and natural resources” through research, development, and public service
  • recently established as a full-fledged center and affiliate hub of the UP Resilience Institute (UPRI) for sustainable and resilient ecosystem management in Los Baños

UPLB Interdisciplinary Life Cycle Assessment Laboratory

  • an interdisciplinary program that conducts life cycle assessment studies by developing ecosystem services, technologies, and commodities toward a sustainable future
  • contributes to UPLB’s effort toward climate change mitigation and in attaining the University’s goal as a low carbon university
  • promotes life cycle thinking and awareness and mainstreams curricular development to advance green economy in the country

S&T Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, and Climate Change Adaptation

    These are S&T innovations and solutions that UPLB has been developing to help protect vulnerable sectors in the Philippines from the impacts of climate change, such as capacitating people on disaster preparedness; initiating programs for sustainable management of resources; and development of drought-resistant crops and early warning systems.