Other Event Archive

• Nature Positive Universities - UK Hub – 14th July 2022

  Nature Positive Universities is a joint initiative between United Nations Environment Programme, University of Oxford and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, encouraging institutions to measure their net impacts on nature and set ambitious targets to work towards "Nature Positive". ...

• HESI+10 Global Forum – 6th July 2022

  Each year, HESI organizes a global forum as a special event to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)  – UN’s main platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level - to highlight the critical role of higher...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Fuel and Energy Related Activities – 5th July 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• SKArating Higher Education Assessor course – 21st June 2022 to 30th June 2022

  This online training module has been designed to provide a detailed look at all the good practice measures and enable participants to become qualified as a SKA Rating Assessor for the Higher Education scheme. Delegates will be required to complete and pass the online course examination to become eli...

• Webinar series: Enabling International Strategies – 28th April 2022 to 23rd June 2022

  UUKi has launched a series of monthly webinars aimed at supporting members to deliver on their international aims. Join them for conversations led by UUKi with partners to help enable international strategies that support UK universities to thrive abroad and at home. Pro-Vice-Chancellors and coll...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Purchased Goods and Services & Capital Goods – 23rd June 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• HESI+10 webinars: Webinar 3 - Inspirational higher education initiatives for SDG 4, 5, 14 and 15 – 21st June 2022

  Highlight and celebrate key higher education initiatives that drive implementation of the 2030 Agenda through education, teaching and learning. About the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative These events are organized as part of the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), which ...

• World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities – 16th June 2022 to 17th June 2022

  The "5th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities" (WSSD-U-2022) will focus on "Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future", and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.   As the slogan of the event suggests, they are as always looking for p...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Sold Products – 16th June 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• Communication Training on Aviation & Climate Justice – 11th June 2022 to 12th June 2022

  Applications open now: Join Stay Grounded's Communication Training on Aviation & Climate Justice and our global network of activists campaigning for a just transport system. The free training weekend for UK activists and campaigners will take place on 11-12 June in London: and you can now apply. ...

• The economic impacts of large dams: a comparative analysis of the Nile and Colorado Rivers – 6th June 2022

  The Colorado River and the Nile River are both undergoing dramatic transformations. Throughout the last century and continuing today, major infrastructure developments have played a pivotal role in shaping the regional economies, livelihoods and environmental conditions of these two critical transbo...

• HESI+10 Webinar Integrating Sustainable Development Goals into higher education – 1st June 2022

  The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) is an open partnership between several United Nations entities and the higher education community launched in the run up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 in 2012).   Each year, HESI organizes a global forum a...

• HESI+10 webinars: Webinar 2 - Integrating Sustainable Development Goals into higher education – 31st May 2022

  For the implementation of the SDGs to have the greatest impact, they must be interwoven and mainstreamed into national policies, plans and strategies. This notion also applies to programmes, curricula, and strategies of Higher education institutions (HEIs), which act as hubs for innovation and criti...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Leased Assets – 26th May 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• Sustainability Science Days conference 2022: Systemic Transformations to Sustainable Futures – 18th May 2022 to 19th May 2022

  The Sustainability Science Days is an international, two-day conference organised jointly by Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and Aalto University on 18-19.5.2022.  This year the conference will focus on the theme of systemic transformations to sustainable futures in a global...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Waste-Related Emissions – 12th May 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• Adaptation limits and prospects for people & ecosystems: findings from the IPCC (WGII) report – 10th May 2022

  The IPCC WG1 has already established that human-induced global warming has reached over 1C and is continuing to rise, demonstrating that climate change is not only a threat in the future, but also right now. Now, the IPCC WG2 report extensively assesses the ‘widespread adverse impacts and rela...

• HESI+10 Global Forum:Webinar 1 - Transformation of higher education post COVID-19 – 27th April 2022

  Webinar 1 - Transformation of higher education post COVID-19, 27 April, 09 - 10.30 AM (EDT) The disruptions that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to societies, including in the education sector, is unprecedented. The webinar will explore how the pandemic has transformed higher education’s a...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Transportation and Distribution – 27th April 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Investments – 13th April 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is hosting a series of topical webinars exploring how companies can t...