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Los ODS en las Ecoescuelas/Working with SDGs from EcoSchools (IN SPANISH; 13:30-14:30 CET)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Ponencia sobre como se trabaja en las Ecoescuelas de Leganés. Descripción de su metodología y actividades diseñadas para trabajar el agua en el sentido más amplio.

This session will present the methodology used in the city of Leganés for EcoSchools, in order to work with children on environmental contents. This year, the EcoSchools project is focused on taking care of water resources. Acces: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/d384c46803b9468698a5fbc326426697 07:30-08:30 am EST (13:30-14:30 UTC+1)

Organizer: Leganés City Town Hall and UC3M

13:30-14:30 CET

Free

New ways of thinking about reducing consumption: Innovations from the Shenandoah Valley

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

In conjunction with Sarah Stalcup-Jones from VA Clean Cities, James Madison University Assistant Professor Jared Stoltzfus, the JMU Environmental Management Club, representatives from Sustainable Shenandoah Valley, and JMU’s Community Service-Learning office are hosting a panel discussion addressing SDGs 12 and 13 (responsible production/consumption and climate action). To register: https://jmu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsce-hpj4oHdWvUrIxa_8u37aQHksX6ANf

Organizer: James Madison University

Free

Envisioning a World Beyond Plastics

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Dr. Erin Bell from UAlbany's School of Public Health will interview Judith Enck, former EPA Regional Administrator, highlighting her work in environmental advocacy. Register to attend this event virtually at https://albany.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I_eCNfPJQ26AduBKMtc0CQ.

Organizer: University at Albany

Free

1Planet4All- taller de sensibilización sobre el cambio climático para jóvenes/ Workshop 1Planet4All: Raising awareness in young activists (IN SPANISH; 11 am-12:30 pm CET)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Se trata de un taller de alrededor de 1'5 hora de duración dirigido a jóvenes a partir de 18 años. Su finalidad es informar, sensibilizar y dotar a sus participantes de capacidad de respuesta frente a la actual crisis socio-ambiental generada por el cambio climático.

There is no doubt on climate change evidence. It is clear that there is a climate emergency that put millions of people in a risky situation, and the most vulnerable population suffers the most. In order to raise awareness on this topic, Ayuda en Acción presents 1Planet4All, a project aimed to encourage youth action as citizens against the climate change. We propose this 1'5h workshop addressed to young people between 18 and 35 years old for discuss, inform, raise awareness, and provide the participants some answers on current climate and social challenges.

Organizer: Campaña Mundial por la Educación and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

11am-12:30 CET

Free

SDG7: Clean and Affordable Energy: The Future of Renewable Energy and Trends from the Field

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Dr. Pamela Martin with lead Solar Ambassador Hannah Bennet with introduce a unique solar seed fund for nonprofits in the United States and discuss SDG 7: Clean and Affordable Energy in the context of solar energy. Then, Dr. Dominique deWit, Director of Business Development for GridX will discuss the renewable energy market, trends, and challenges, as well as career paths in the field. This conversation will connect the global and local renewable energy trajectories, and provide valuable career and private industry insights from a Coastal Carolina University alumna who is now at a cutting edge energy firm.
To Join: https://ccuchants.zoom.us/j/93642156713?pwd=MUxWRXEzMHhaWkdZenpXQlk3R2lVUT09

Organizer: Coastal Carolina University

Free

Student Roundtable: Economic and Socio-Cultural Effects of Wildfires

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Let the students talk! In this roundtable, students are going to discuss about their ideas and share their knowledge on the related topic. The senior student moderator of the roundtable will be introducing interesting questions for you. At the of the student roundtable, an expert will join to the session for a short presentation on the topic. To JOIN: https://kocun.zoom.us/j/94386061110 Passcode:2022

Organizer: Koç University

Free

How to Avoid Greenwashing: Towards a Rigorous Life Cycle Assessment (7-8 pm AST)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

You are invited to the second event of the Spring 2022 Sustainability Seminar Series, on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, at 7:00 pm AST ., entitled “How to Avoid Greenwashing: Towards a Rigorous Life Cycle Assessment” by Professor Heather MacLean, the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Systems and Technology Assessment, University of Toronto.
Register at https://kaust.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cMkWPyTlRK2Vf7qDS3yYrA

Organizer: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

March 1, 7-8 pm AST

Free

Students Leading for Climate Action and Justice (4-5 pm PT)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

As part of the 2022 UN SDGs Action and Awareness Week, UC Davis is hosting a student-run virtual symposium to bring attention to the many ways that UC Davis students are leading efforts to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and in particular, how students are leading efforts to address SDG 13: Climate Action and climate justice.
REGISTER AT: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YZSb8ciLTtStpLYPA0MRxA

Organizer: UC Davis

Free

International Considerations in Responsible Waste Management

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Billions of tons of solid waste are generated every year globally, estimated at 60M tons of electronic waste, 730M tons of medical waste, 1B tons of hazardous waste, and 2B tons of municipal solid waste (World Bank Group 2018). For this talk, Professor Beril Toktay will discuss strategies for managing two types of solid waste–both that which is fit for value-added recovery as well as that which is unwanted and potentially detrimental to public health and the environment. Registration requested.

Organizer: Georgia Institute of Technology

Free

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Intersection of Climate and Migration (11:00-12:00 am CST)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is partnering with the Department of Modern Languages and the School of Global Integrative Studies to host an interdisciplinary panel exploring the many complexities at the intersection of climate change and migration. All are welcome to join this virtual panel discussion. REGISTER: go.unl.edu/climatemigration

Organizer: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

11:00-12:00 am CST

Free

Student Roundtable: Breathing and Drinking Microplastics

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Let the students talk! In this roundtable, students are going to discuss about their ideas and share their knowledge on the related topic. The senior student moderator of the roundtable will be introducing interesting questions for you. At all the of the student roundtables, an expert will join to the session for a short presentation on the topic. To join: https://kocun.zoom.us/j/95894885400 passcode: 2022

Organizer: Koç University

Strengthening Resilience and Collaboration for Wetlands (4-5 pm Indian Standard Time)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

A webinar on "Strengthening Resilience and Collaboration for Wetlands" for participants from Higher Education Institutions. Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet wetlands are in danger; threatened with drainage for agriculture, degradation, pollution, and destruction at an alarming pace. Collaboration among Business, Government, and NGOs and Higher Institution is essential.

Organizer: University of Madras
4-5 pm Indian Standard Time

Free

Saving UAE’s Native Plants: How we Built the Flora Database (2-3 p.m. Gulf Standard Time)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The purpose of the webinar is to explain the efforts of young Emirati plant specialists in the generation of UAE Flora: The Native Plants Database of Emirates; a fully referenced, extensively validated, evolving, web-based, virtual database that has been designed and developed to introduce native plants form the biodiversity of UAE to the Global scientific communities, with the help and support of UAE plants’ expert from all the emirates. This database will be accessible to experts, researchers, and the public to support the UAE Flora conservation and reintroduction efforts.
Organizer: Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-uaes-native-plants-how-we-built-the-flora-database-webinar-tickets-559442998067

Students Taking on Hunger: Ideas from Around the World on Addressing Food Insecurity and Inadequate Nutrition

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Please join us on Monday, March 6, 1-2 pm PST, as UC Davis SDG Interns interview student speakers from around the world about encouraging local agricultural production, reducing food waste, and engaging communities to facilitate food distribution.
Organizer: UC Davis
To register: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ccy17hwAQfasyKQdDXfolA

2023 Great Lakes Conference: Managing Fisheries and Exploring Islands

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The 33rd Annual Great Lakes conference will feature two themes with three presentations per theme as well as a panel discussion with Q/A from participants. The themes are Fisheries Management in the Great Lakes and Great Lakes Islands. The day will also feature a presentation on PFAS in Great Lakes Fish. The conference is sponsored by Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Institute of Water Research, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, and MSU Extension. Support is provided by US Geological Survey Water Resources Research Program. The conference is free to attend.
Register: https://www.canr.msu.edu/iwr/events/annual-great-lakes-conference

Urban Gardening & Composting: Take Action in Your Community

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

We head over to Colombia's second biggest city, Medellin, to explore the positive social and environmental impacts urban gardening can have upon your community. Led by a local pioneer, you will learn how to dramatically reduce your daily carbon footprint while also discovering expert techniques to be able to start a composting system for your home or university. The interactive webinar includes a presentation from local pioneer Laura Rubio and tangible take-away tools to take sustainable action straight away.
Organizer: Kagumu Adventures

TO REGISTER: https://forms.gle/6kaEdsUsn7YLMYeg9

Conferencia ODS en el Tec: “Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible a la mitad del camino”

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Tec de Monterrey, through the SDGs Initiative, will host the Conference "The SDGs at the crossroads", where participants will discuss the progress and remaining challenges to achieve the SDGs by 2030. The conference will have keynote speakers and panels dedicated to each dimension of sustainable development.
Organizer: Tec de Monterrey
Register: https://itesm.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cQaDWMtER6CKkkGLQZb2tQ

Advancing careers & the SDGs: how a co-curricular program prepares students to make a difference in their professional paths

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's SDG Scholar Program (housed within their College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources), seeks to both spark curiosity about the goals and help students chart their professional paths to be aligned with them. Learn more about the program (and potentially join us as an SDG expert, if you're interested!) by attending this session about creatively re-combining resources and connections to benefit students, our countries, and the world.
Organizer: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Register: https://unl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuf-ihrjkvHtCaGd6tALbcYl7WxCtWO-x3

Conversations with Cabrera: Climate Change

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Georgia Institute of Technology President Ángel Cabrera convenes a panel of faculty to discuss climate action, emerging technologies, and predictions for how we'll live, work, and socialize in 2050 through a climate change lens as part of Sustainable Development Goals Action and Awareness Week.
Organizer: Georgia Institute of Technology
Join Online: c.gatech.edu/SDG2023

Global Shared Learning Classroom con metodología COIL y desarrollo de competencias éticas y ciudadanas.

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

Bajo el proyecto TEC GLOBAL SHARE LEARNING CLASSROOM y la metodología COIL, dos universidades ITESM (México) y URV (España) se unen con alumnos en dos materias integrados en equipos internacionales, que bajo uno de los 17 ODS de la Agenda 2030 cada equipo investiga, mapea y propone soluciones viables, a corto plazo para coadyuvar en algunas de las metas del ODS otorgado y que tenga impacto real  (social/ambiental) con acciones concretas en su territorio (México y España).
Pueden registrarse enviando un correo a: mariaconcepcio.torres@urv.cat

Sustainable Food System Solutions Research Fair (in-person, McGill University)

McGill University Thomson House Ballroom

Come learn about innovative student research on improving food security, food as medicine, Indigenous nutrition, and more at the Sustainable Food System Solutions Research Fair on Thursday, March 9 starting at 3 p.m. in the Thomson House Ballroom (3650 McTavish St., Montreal). Enjoy free food, hear from McGill students and a guest speaker, and celebrate the launch of a new food security research network designed to connect students based on the downtown and Macdonald campuses.

“Meet the Maker” of the Beyond the Box: SDGs exhibit, Nebraska alumna Peyton Bishop

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

“Beyond the Box: CASNR Edition” is a collection of resources in an interactive audio exhibit highlighting Nebraska faculty and staff contributions towards the Sustainable Development Goals (currently on display at the Nebraska East Union third floor). The project was created to utilize digital storytelling to support students in various grades as they explore their future. Through focusing on important human values, these collections of stories highlight how individuals have found their way into the sciences and how their chosen career has allowed them to do amazing and impactful work related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Organizer: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
To register: https://unl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucuutqjIvGNJGfYtANyfZlAZMyJnQvA-f

SDGs by Self Reliant World (7:45 – 8:30 p.m. IST)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

A Global webinar on the SDGs by Self Reliant World.
Organizer: Unity of Nations Action for Climate Change Council
Join: meet.google.com/jue-etwg-epr

Journées Scientifiques – Scientific Days (en français)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

'objectif principal de cette journée scientifique est de faire découvrir les travaux effectués dans les différents centres de l’INRS sous forme de présentations vulgarisées et d’aborder les nouvelles thématiques qui occupent la sphère scientifique mondiale.
Presented by the Comité d'organisation des Journées scientifiques de l'INRS, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Québec City, Quebec
enregistrer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKX_65PkoKFcGHw5oTnX9wR6jAx1PbYAz3W4Vs6-vwpGWzQA/viewform

Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 program is organized by the SDG Innovation Lab, Centre of Entrepreneurship, Centennial College with OSPE and Canadian Partners and the support from UNDP and Digital Society School Amsterdam. It is a weekend program to contribute to the Global Goals by collaborating and building solutions to pressing social or business challenges and invoking the participation and engagement of students, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, creative thinkers, and the public community. The program uses a design process and lean methodology to guide participants ensuring that any potential solutions actually solve the problem at hand.
Organizer: Centennial College and Partners
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-goals-jam-canada-winter-2023-march-10-12th-weekend-tickets-479543897707

The role of medical sciences universities in the UN SDGs (9.00-10.30 GMT)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

How can medical universities play a critical role in fulfilling the SDGs and helping society to achieve the SDGs through leadership, research, teaching and learning? View National Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute's (NNFTRI) programmes and projects in line with actualizing UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Organizer: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83511832812?pwd=bJQjyQmxbIVz9OFfbGlXBobc4fbWBu.1 passcode: 511248

We Demand FASHION 2024 SDG 12: Bazaar & Small Business Sustainability (4 March 8:00 am – 6 March 17:00, Philippines, PHST)

We Demand FASHION aims to provide students and business owners an avenue to hone their entrepreneurial skills through retailing secondhand apparel in an Ukay-ukay Bazaar. This event is open to serve fellow students, faculty, and staff to introduce and practice sustainable efforts as stakeholders in the ever-growing clothing industry.
Organizer: Internationalization and Linkages (InterLink) Office of San Pedro College
Event information: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=828201339320867&set=a.467110008763337

Advancing SDGs on Campus Using the 17 Rooms Approach

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

To register: Meeting Registration - Zoom How can you take the world's 17 Sustainable Development Goals into your own hands? Join this session to hear from students and staff as they explain how they have used 17 Rooms to advance action, insights, and community on the SDGs. A partnership between the Center for Sustainable Development […]

Conferencia “De la desigualdad de género a la desigualdad climática” (11.00-12.00 CST)

Virtual Eastern Standard Time Zone, GA

The objective of this conference is to explore the intersection between gender inequality and climate inequality, highlighting how these affect the addressing of other challenges such as climate change.
Organizer: Tec de Monterrey
Register: https://itesm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckceGtpj8vGNSevi8d07la71qG-QrZKlB4