Other Event Archive

• Coventry/Leamington Spa Green Week! – 8th March 2021 to 14th March 2021

  Communities across Coventry and Warwickshire are being urged to make the fourth annual Green Week a launchpad for sustainability. Green Week, which this year will take place between Monday 8th and Sunday 14th March 2021, originated from talks between the University of Warwick, Coventry City Counc...

• Leopards, mountains and politics - University of Oxford – 10th March 2021

  Although its broad geographical range and charismatic appeal make the leopard one of the most potent mammalian ambassador species, it is experiencing a greater range loss than most other large terrestrial carnivores. In Asia, leopard subspecies currently occur in only 16% of their historical range, ...

• Climate Reality: is COP26 our one shot for success? – 10th March 2021

  This event will be hosted by local Climate Leaders, from The Climate Reality Project, a network of over 31,000 Climate Reality Leader activists mobilizing communities in 170 countries. The Earth is facing a climate crisis, driven by fossil fuels. At Climate Reality, we’re here to make urgent a...

• ESD and lifestyle: Re-designing consumption and production – 10th March 2021

  10 March 2021, 14:00 GMT+1 (3pm GMT) Reflects on the trends in consumption and production observed during the pandemic, such as re-defining of our daily necessity and the return of single-use plastic, and highlights ways ESD can accelerate transformation towards a more sustainable economy. For...

• Online Workshop: ESD and lifestyle: Re-designing consumption and production – 10th March 2021

  Climate change, shrinking forests, declining biodiversity and world food shortages are all results of the fact that we are demanding more from nature than it can supply.    To build a more sustainable world, attitudes and behaviours must change at different levels: individual, community, national,...

• GenComm Hâ‚‚ Webinars: 1 - Hydrogen Optimisation – 10th March 2021

  The webinar will focus on using Green H2 and optimising its use economically, environmentally, commercially and socially as SMART H2, and accelerating our energy transition journey to a zero CO2 destination. The theme of the webinar is to show how we can produce and use green hydrogen in an indus...

• Net Zero for Local Communities - University of Oxford – 8th March 2021

  Local communities have an important role to play in the net zero transition, developing new models of collective living to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.  Cities in particular represent 70% of the worlds emissions and are expected to grow to 68% of the global population by 2050. This ...

• London’s progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals – 8th March 2021

  Report launch by the London Sustainable Development Commission The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set ambitious targets to create transformative social, economic and environmental progress by 2030 – the closest thing we have to a global sustainability strategy. But national governm...

• UN Sustainable Development Goals Action and Awareness Week – 1st March 2021 to 5th March 2021

  The purpose of this week is to promote awareness of the SDGs among students in higher education and inspire them to take action in furtherance of the goals on their campuses and in their local community. For full details, click here....

• Cultural Adaptations Conference – 2nd March 2021 to 5th March 2021

  The Cultural Adaptations conference will take place online from 2-5 March 2021. Over four afternoons, this inspiring event will feature participatory works, explore wider knowledge and international experiences of how creativity can help us adapt, and share learnings from our project activities in f...

• Making Decarbonisation Fair – 1st March 2021 to 4th March 2021

  Making Decarbonisation Fair is a free online conference, which will bring together >200 actors and academics from diverse perspectives to explore current barriers and possible solutions, and who needs to do what to ensure the global bid to reach net-zero emissions does not adversely affect vulnerabl...

• Reopen right: eliminate wasted food to protect your profit and our planet – 4th March 2021

  Wasting food feeds climate change and impacts on your bottom line - around £10,000 per outlet. But there are some simple, impactful ways for your organisation to take action and reduce wasted food. It makes sense for profit, people and our planet. From attracting new customers to building a stron...

• Panel: The climate crisis and action in Bournemouth and universities – 3rd March 2021

  2021 has been called the year of climate action, and the scientific evidence that we must act, and act now, is overwhelming. Having been ranked as fourth in the UK for Climate Action, Bournemouth University has recently launched its Climate & Ecological Crisis Action Plan with the goal to be net zer...

• Between a rock and a wet place: putting carbon back into geological storage - University of Oxford – 1st March 2021

  The cycle of carbon between the Earth’s surface and its deep interior is a key component of our goldilocks planet. Without it we would not have life or water on the planet today. Natural carbon burial has provided us with the fossil fuels we have used to develop our technologically advanced so...

• Fairtrade Fortnight: Fairtrade, the climate crisis and engagement – 26th February 2021

  For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks. mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and unde...

• National infrastructure for the recovery and the long term - University of Oxford – 25th February 2021

  National infrastructure is central to the UK government’s agenda for Covid-19 recovery, levelling up and achieving net zero carbon emissions. Can investment in energy, transport, water, waste and digital infrastructure actually deliver on these expectations… fast and affordably?  In ...

• Sustainable Transformation Entry Points: COVID-19, Disruptive Changes & Sustainable Futures – 25th February 2021

  RSA City and Regional Sustainability Transitions Webinar Series Policy aimed towards sustainability transitions is beginning to have fundamental effects on how economic activity is organised across cities and regions. Growing calls in the wake of Covid-19 for a ‘green recovery’ height...

• Educating the net zero workforce: Heat Pumps Roundtable – 25th February 2021

  Please join BEIS and the AOC for a roundtable on the role of further education institutions in providing the skills needed to decarbonise heat in buildings as a part of the UK Government’s commitment to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to zero net by 2050. This roundtable is an opportunit...

• Boosting UK Cycling Activity: Securing the Benefits of Safe and Accessible Cycling – 25th February 2021

  With the link between obesity and the severe effects of Covid-19, plus the need to encourage social distancing on mass transit, renewed emphasis has been placed on boosting the levels of cycling activity in the UK, with the Prime minster calling for "a new golden age for cycling". Beyond Covid, comm...

• The stymieing effect of unresolved ethical issues on the conservation of biodiversity – 24th February 2021

  The conservation of biodiversity is usefully understood to be the maintenance of ecosystem health and restoration of endangered species. In this presentation we’ll examine how the two most important phrases in that definition "ecosystem health" and "endangered species" are underdetermined to t...