[SPN-Discussion] SCC Online Dialogue: The 2030 Development Agenda (SDGs, Paris and Sendai)

Ira Feldman ira at greentrack.com
Fri Jul 8 10:16:37 PDT 2016


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“advancing curriculum and faculty development
for sustainability in higher education”
  
(excerpted from SCC Update – July 2016)
Registration open for the next SCC Online Dialogue:
The 2030 Development Agenda (SDGs, Paris and Sendai)

SCC's next scheduled Online Dialogue will launch later this month and will focus on the key components of the 2030 Development Agenda <http://curriculumforsustainability.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5defa2f49cf6dbf9856fb5b31&id=3e7a7f99ce&e=36cbf5b484> -- the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Sendai Framework on disaster risk.

This professional development offering is based on the premise that teaching faculty need to understand the fundamentals of the governing framework for sustainable development for the next 15 years.

SCC Director Ira Feldman will moderate the dialogue that will engage leading experts and stakeholders.  The SCC Online Dialogue process includes:
webinars (listed below),
access to relevant resources,
facilitated Q&A on the Collaborase platform, and
co-creation of a "synthesis document" by all registrants.* (See details of our full Online Dialogue process in the box following the webinar descriptions.)
Registration: One registration includes all 3 webinars and access to all other Online Dialogue components. There is NO FEE for this SCC activity.   Click here <http://curriculumforsustainability.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5defa2f49cf6dbf9856fb5b31&id=e018df059b&e=36cbf5b484> to register.

This Online Dialogue will include three webinar sessions:
Tuesday, July 26, 2PM Eastern -- The first webinar will cover the concept of "planetary boundaries" in the Anthropocene as a basis for understanding the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Presenters will include Kevin Noone (Stockholm University), a co-author of the seminal Rockstrom planetary boundaries paper, and Ashwani Vasishth (Ramapo College and SCC Advisory Council member), who actively participated in the UN's SDG stakeholder process.
Tuesday, August 9, 2PM Eastern -- The second webinar will cover elements of the Paris Climate Agreement.  Presenters will include Mark Trexler (the Climatographers); Wil Burns (the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment and past president of AESS); and Don Brown (Widener Law School).  Selected topics to include: the role of business & industry; geoengineering; mitigation, adaptation, and loss & damage; and climate ethics.
Tuesday, August 23, 2PM Eastern -- In the final webinar of this series, Debbra A.K. Johnson (DAKJ LLC and SCC Advisory Council member) and Aris Papadapoulos (founder of the Resilience Action Fund), both leaders in ARISE: the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, will explain the basics of the Sendai Framework on disaster risk reduction and its relevance to broader sustainability issues. Debbra and Aris will emphasize the linkages between all three components of the 2030 Development Agenda, which, taken together, can serve as a comprehensive game plan for sustainable development.
* What is SCC's process for Online Dialogues?  

We are developing a multi-part process that can be applied to any relevant theme or topic of interest to sustainability educators. Our Online Dialogue process combines key readings, expert-led webinars, interactive Q&A sessions on Collaborase <http://curriculumforsustainability.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5defa2f49cf6dbf9856fb5b31&id=2d9d5d5633&e=36cbf5b484>, and the co-creation of a synthesis document into an integrated process. SCC's innovative approach offers sustainability educators a quick and credible means to become conversant with emerging trends, frameworks, and hot topics and to keep pace with developments in sustainability. We are facilitating this exchange of knowledge to bridge the gap between the sustainability practitioner/policymaker and educator communities, and thereby advance faculty and curriculum development for education for sustainable development (ESD).




                                         
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