TU Dublin to host Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit
TU Dublin is to host the Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit on Tuesday 18 June 2024 at TU Dublin, Grangegorman campus, from 12:45 to 17:00.
Minister Ossian Smyth TD, Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications will address the Summit of an audience of senior leaders and teaching staff from higher education institutions. The Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit will discuss the important role that higher education plays in addressing climate change, and how higher education can be a leader of behaviour change for both the public sector and the communities which we serve.
A panel discussion, Chaired by Professor Jennie C. Stephens, Professor of Climate Science and Climate Justice at Maynooth University, will broaden the scope on climate change discussions, lift people's gaze to the more pressing issues of justice, ethics and power and the 'things' that will ultimately suffer if we keep lagging on meeting targets. Each panelist will outline a perspective on climate change and be interviewed by Prof Stephens.
Hear from climate leaders within the sector
Panel
- Jennie C. Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice, ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University
- Vanessa Conroy, Project Officer, Feminist Communities for Climate Justice, National Women's Council & Community Work Ireland, (NWCI)
- Eimear Manning, Youth & Climate Justice Development Officer, National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI)
- Aoife Hynes, USI Rep Border, Midlands and Western (BMW) region, The Union of Students in Ireland
- Laura O’Connor, Political Engagement and Campaigns Manager, Concern Worldwide
Speakers and Facilitators
- Jennifer Boyer, Vice President for Sustainability, TU Dublin
- Dr Brian Gormley Head of Sustainability Education, TU Dublin
- Dr Sharon Flynn. National Co-Ordinator N-TUTORR
- Rosie Webb, Head of Decarbonisation, TU Dublin
- Fergal Grogan, Office of Government Procurement (OGP)
- Elaine Nevin, National Director, Chief Executive Officer, ECO-UNESCO
- Dr Emma Howard, Lecturer in Economics, School of Marketing, TU Dublin
- Dr Lorraine D’Arcy, Sustainability Action Research & Innovation Lead, TU Dublin
- Dr Mark Kelly, Head of ATU Galway-Mayo Centre for Sustainability and Senior Lecturer Department of Building and Civil Engineering, Atlantic Technological University (ATU)
with
Keynote
- John Gibbons (Climate Change Journalist & Commentator)
Addressing an audience of senior leaders from higher education, the topics covered will include operations; decarbonising the campus; green procurement; buildings and estates; behaviour change; as well as embedding sustainability in the curriculum.
Climate Action Leadership Training is being rolled out across the Higher Education sector as set out in the Public Sector Mandate and this Summit will address the lessons learned and questions raised during the training.
The Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit is being supported by the National Technological University Transformation for Recovery and Resilience project (N-TUTORR). The summit is being run in tandem with a 'Community of Practice for Sustainability Champions' in the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science which will take place on Wednesday 19 June 2024.
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