Termez State University has an institutional Energy and Climate Change Programme for 2024–2030 and participates in joint climate-action planning with public authorities. Its official climate-risk cooperation page states that a joint activity plan has been developed with agriculture and ecology authorities and the Ministry of Emergency Situations to address local climate impacts. The university’s strategic climate cooperation page also states that the results of climate-related activities are shared with local government and public organisations. These records describe institutional planning, joint work with government partners and communication beyond the campus.
The Energy and Climate Change Programme covers a period that includes the 2025 reporting year. It is identified by name in the university’s GreenMetric climate-programmes submission, which provides the original programme link, and is listed on the university’s public SDG page. The university therefore presents its climate activity within a continuing institutional programme. Joint activity planning with government organisations and the communication of results are described in the accompanying official cooperation pages.
The operational content of the university’s climate work is set out in its Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Programme. The submitted evidence places this programme under the Carbon Reduction and Net-Zero Policy and the 2025–2027 sustainability agenda. It covers university-controlled fuel use and vehicles, purchased electricity and wider indirect emissions associated with mobility, waste, procurement and resource use. This gives the planning framework identifiable areas of work across university operations and links climate policy with the management of facilities and services.
The programme describes solar water heating in student residences, technical maintenance and improved energy management alongside electric-vehicle charging infrastructure. Its electricity measures include university-owned photovoltaics, LED lighting, motion sensors, smart meters, insulation and efficient windows and doors. Wider measures include walking, cycling, lower-carbon commuting, organic-waste treatment, reduced paper use, digital administration and sustainable procurement. These are the operational measures documented in the submission and provide substantive content for the university’s climate programme.
The public Net-Zero Policy extends the planning framework to external engagement. It includes local communities, government bodies and regional institutions in the university’s climate approach and provides for public climate-progress reporting and consultation during policy review. These are published commitments concerning participation and accountability. The policy connects the institution’s environmental objectives with education, infrastructure and community engagement, providing a basis for involving partners in the university’s longer-term climate work.
The official strategic climate cooperation page identifies regional ecology, water-management and forestry organisations as partners in seminars, environmental campaigns and monitoring. It describes local-community involvement in planting, environmental cleaning and responsible water use, and states that results are shared with local government and public organisations. This is the university’s explicit account of communicating the outcomes of its climate-related activity to external audiences. It places communication within continuing cooperation with organisations whose responsibilities concern the local environment.
Joint planning with public agencies is described on the university’s government climate-risk cooperation page. The joint activity plan involves agriculture and ecology authorities and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The same page describes emergency exercises and communication about flood and mudflow protection. This establishes a form of shared planning directed at local climate impacts and preparedness. The partner relationship includes the preparation of activities as well as the communication of environmental information and protective measures.
A concrete 2025 example is the Kattaqum adaptation project reported by the university on 26 July. The Regional Research Centre works with the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography on the effects of moving sand and hot winds on settlements in Termez and Jarqo‘rg‘on districts. The public report links the work to a letter from the Surxondaryo regional administration. Its named location, public-sector connection and programme of protective proposals make it a specific example of university expertise contributing to local adaptation planning.
The work described includes field study, environmental monitoring, remote sensing and mapping, together with plans for desert greening, dune stabilisation, protective green belts and the selection of desert-adapted vegetation. These proposals concern the relationship between exposed settlements and their surrounding landscape. The university account describes the development of scientifically grounded measures for reducing the effects of moving sand and hot winds. The official Telegram channel also published the project account in post 33722, providing a public communication route for the same local adaptation work.
The 2025 GreenMetric community-service register lists the Kattaqum project under “Scientific steps towards a green life”, dated 26 July, with 150 participants. The event register records the same date and participant figure. These submitted records connect the publicly described project with the university’s reporting for the year. The figure belongs to that project entry and accompanies the named government-linked work in the two affected districts.
Community groups also participate through mahalla-based environmental cooperation. On 20 February 2025, academic staff, tutors and volunteer students took part in improvements in Temirchilar mahalla in Termez district under the Green Space initiative. The university’s dated account records the planting of around 100 conifer saplings. This provides a specific local neighbourhood and a physical output for the university’s community environmental activity. It is relevant as a practical setting for engagement alongside the formal planning relationships described in the official cooperation pages.
The GreenMetric submission records additional community activity during 2025. Green Space planting on 12 February involved 550 participants, Intellectuals Gardens on 15 March involved 1,000, and World Cleanup Day on 20 September involved 500. The Ecological Culture campaign on 24 October records 1,000 participants and includes neighbourhood and roadside clean-up in Termez. These counts describe the scale of individual community activities. They show the settings in which students and volunteers work with the local environment alongside the university’s planning and public communication.
Local dialogue also extends to water management. The public community-water programme describes cooperation with regional ecology and water authorities, sessions in schools and mahallas, guidance for households and agriculture, and open forums on climate effects on water resources. This provides a further channel for discussing local environmental pressures and practical responses with residents and rural communities. The university’s climate-cooperation page also identifies environmental NGOs and regional hydrometeorological organisations as partners in adaptation, monitoring and public awareness.
Information exchange supports these relationships. The official climate-risk monitoring page describes regular sharing of environmental information with the Ministry of Emergency Situations to support local and regional early-warning systems. It refers to meteorological observations, water levels and natural hazards. The submitted innovations evidence separately describes the Meteobot station at the Western Campus, with information on temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, soil conditions and solar radiation used for research, monitoring, early-warning activity and student training. These records connect climate planning with observation and communication of local conditions.
The university’s monitoring arrangements also provide a means of reviewing implementation. Its emissions-reduction programme identifies electricity bills, photovoltaic inverter data, fuel and vehicle records, waste logs, procurement documentation and sustainability reports as review inputs. Responsible university units assess progress annually and identify further energy-performance and emissions-reduction measures. The 2025 submission records 3,010,000 kWh of solar electricity used directly on campus within total electricity use of 4,850,000 kWh, a solar share of 62.06%. These are implementation figures within the university’s own energy account