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ISCN 2016: IARU Engagement
The document summarizes two sustainability conferences organized by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). The first event in October 2014 was the IARU Sustainability Science Congress & Sustainable Campus Conference which had over 700 researchers from 50 countries discuss topics like biodiversity, energy, food, and water. The second event in December 2016 was the IARU Global University Climate Forum which had 27 student teams from over 30 countries develop climate solutions and receive peer feedback. Both conferences aimed to foster dialogue around sustainability between universities.
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ISCN 2016: IARU Engagement
- 1. IARU Engagement Melissa Goodall,Yale University On behalf of the International Alliance of Research Universities June 2016
- 2. IARU Sustainability ScienceCongress & Sustainable Campus Conference (Faculty and Staff Engagement) October 2014
- 4. 700+ researchers from 50+countries
- 5. PLENARY: Growing society sustainably Lifeon earth: when the terms change Infrastructure and capacity building Changing the way we think
- 6. SESSIONS: Biodiversity BiomassEconomy Sustainability education Energy Feeding future generations From “climate” to “sustainability” From knowledge to action Governance in light of planetary boundaries Sustainability- health interactions Human-earth relationship Sustainable nutrient management Social equity, development and global environment Urbanisation Water
- 9. ~150 international attendees Spotlighton action-oriented local solutions and fostering dialogue between universities.
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- 11. IARU Global UniversityClimate Forum (Student Engagement) December 2016 (June 2012, December 2009)
- 12. 27 teams, 130+students, 30+ countries
- 13. Schedule: • Plenary • Peerreview session • Plenary • Peer review session • Lunch • Plenary • Peer review session • Plenary • Reception
- 16. Next steps: Collect updates andfoster peer- to-peer dialogue for one year Finalize projects in December Publish final report early in 2017 Offer peer review publication to teams that qualify
- 17. Next steps • ….staytuned…
- 18. IARU Engagement Melissa Goodall,Yale University On behalf of the International Alliance of Research Universities June 2016
Editor's Notes
- #5 Julian Agyeman Jane Lubchenco Peter Bakker Shiyi Chen Johan Rockström Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish Prime Minister Guido Schmidt-Traub
- #6 These were the plenary topics, which I think we can all agree are of real interest to sustainability offices as well as academics.
- #7 And these are the session topics, which I think we can all agree are of real interest to sustainability offices as well as academics.
- #9 In October IARU hosted a faculty-led scientific congress. This was an amazing event with headliners like the Danish Prime Minister and Peter Bakker of the WBCSD. We launched the book in tandem with this. While the conference was inspiring and highlighted global trends and solutions, our conference was intimate – it had around 150 attendees - and was organized in a way that fostered dialogue and action-oriented local solutions.
- #11 We used the green guide as the backbone for this event. We captured much of the dialogue on video, and since then an independent listserv was established. Next step is that we will use these same categories to develop a series of case studies to showcase our lessons learned.
- #18 We just had our meeting last week, so we are in the process of developing our outcome documents and looping in our colleagues who could not attend. We are also now heading into a meeting with some ISCN representatives to talk through how the two groups might work together