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• How Should Future Business Leaders Confront Climate Change?: An Interactive Seminar – 24th March 2022

  What is your business school teaching about climate change? What should it teach? How should it teach? Join this discussion about how to teach climate leadership in business schools. Learn about a comprehensive, systemic model for teaching climate leadership, a decade in the making, and discuss how ...

• "Getting to a fusion pilot plant: a perspective from the US" with Prof Steve Cowley – 23rd March 2022

  Fusion could, if developed, play a major role as a major "firm" addressable power source in the future decarbonised energy supply. However, considerable innovation is needed to bring it to market. The US National Academy has recently called for the US to adopt a strategy to produce fusion electri...

• AoC Annual Climate Change, Sustainability and Green Skills Conference: By The Sector, For The Sector – 23rd March 2022

  Students across the world are identifying the climate emergency as the main issue facing society today, urging immediate collaborative action at scale and pace. This year, AoC’s second Climate Change, Sustainability and Green Skills Conference will bring together key speakers from across the c...

• “What role for science in achieving Net Zero?â€� with Prof Paul Monks – 17th March 2022

  Under the Paris Agreement, 197 countries have agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and make efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C. and on 13 November 2021, COP26 concluded in Glasgow with all countries agreeing the Glasgow Climate Pact to keep 1.5C alive and finalise the outstandi...

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2022: Inclusive Institutions in Action – 16th March 2022 to 17th March 2022

  This conference offers an opportunity to think deeply and creatively about what it means to be an inclusive institution, to explore models of inclusion that challenge traditional concepts of leadership and agency, and to share innovative practice around collaboration, co-ownership, allyship and soli...

• Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Employee Commuting and Homeworking – 17th March 2022

  Part of the UN Global Compact Network UK interactive, nine-part ‘Reducing Scope 3 Emissions’ webinar series. Reducing Scope 3 Emissions: Employee Commuting and Homeworking To support companies to reduce carbon emissions across their value chain, the UN Global Compact Network UK is ...

• Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now? – 27th January 2022 to 10th March 2022

  On the 13th November 2021 Cop26 reached a consensus on key actions to address climate change. The decisions consist of a range of agreed items, including strengthened efforts to build resilience to climate change, to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to provide the necessary finance for both. In ...

• "Tropical forests to 2050: science challenges for researchers and policy-makers" – 10th March 2022

  Understanding the dynamics of carbon and biodiversity across the world’s tropical forests and how these change with our changing climate requires global teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach. But how can researchers and policymakers work together to monitor and develop the forests impac...

• Protecting British Pollinators – 10th March 2022

  Public Policy Exchange will be hosting a webinar on Protecting British Pollinators: Halting the Decline of Bee Populations and Addressing Serious Threats to Biodiversity which will take place on: Thursday, March 10th 2022 between 9:30am and 1:00pm Programme Review recent government strategies...

• SDG Teach In – 21st February 2022 to 4th March 2022

  The fourth annual SDG Teach In will take place between Monday 21st February and Friday 4th March 2022! The annual global campaign delivered by SOS-UK calls on educators to pledge to include the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, otherwise known as the SDGs, in their teaching and learnin...

• Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature – 4th March 2022

  Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature: Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon Seminar by Dr Linda Etchart Linda will provide an overview of her book on global governance of the environment which explores the obstacles facing indigenous communiti...

• “Modelling climate change: predicting the futureâ€� - Tim Palmer & Charles Godfray – 3rd March 2022

  Join Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, and Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, as they discuss how modelling climate change can inform decisions made by scientists, policy makers & business managers. But how robust are the pr...

• We are what we teach: 5 ways that education can be re-wired for nature – 2nd March 2022

  This event will present 5 innovative ideas around formal and non-formal education for nature and will bring together universities, sport, the gaming industry and youth, as well as offer a unique discussion among education and environment ministers to build out a broader plan around education for nat...

• Collaborating with policymakers to embed climate education in higher education – 2nd March 2022

  Join a 2-hour advocacy workshop to learn from student leaders from around the world about how to collaborate with policymakers to embed climate education in the formal curricula of higher education institutions. Learn from student leaders from around the world about how to collaborate with policy...

• Women in Sustainability: Panel Event – 1st March 2022

  The University of Huddersfield’s Sustainability Team invites you to attend their first ‘Women in Sustainability’ event where we will be joined by an exciting, all female panel to discuss the vital role of women working in sustainability. Outlined as one of the United Nations Sus...

• Panel Discussion: "Fleshing out a future COP" – 24th February 2022

  The food system generates around a third of human-made greenhouse gas emissions. With about half of these attributable to animal production; and yet food was markedly absent from official discussions at COP26. This, for many analysts, represented not only a major climate-relevant omission but als...

• London Student Sustainability Conference 2022 – 24th February 2022

  After previous successful conferences, we’re looking forward to welcoming students, staff, professionals and members of the public to our online conference, to find out more about the work which is inspiring positive impacts in the world. The conference is entirely student-led; with student...

• AoC FE Green Thread Webinar Series – Beyond the FE Roadmap – 23rd February 2022

  Webinar Series 3 - Green Skills  and  Collaborative working This webinar series is designed to help colleges on their sustainability journey by bringing together perspectives from all those working in this space within our sector to share the latest insights as "news you can use" with their exper...

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Workshop Series – 7th October 2021 to 22nd February 2022

  These workshops will offer practical advice, guidance, policy information, frameworks and toolkits to support positive change within departments, schools, faculties and institutions in areas such as race equality, challenging privilege, and dignity and respect.   Institutions looking to book multi...

• Youth Participation in Policy Decision-Making on Climate Change Communication & Education – 11th February 2022

  Youth Participation in Policy Decision-Making on Climate Change Communication and Education: Examples and Recommendations February 11, 2022, 09:30 IST/15:00 AEST Recent waves of civil activism around the world have highlighted that increasing the quantity of quality climate change education is...