Finally, academia is seeking to ‘climate-proof’ higher education! – ‘Dear Colleague’ letter circulated to study how ‘Higher Education Can Become Climate-Proof’ – Promotes ‘travel offsets’ to lower emissions from staff & students

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/walter-leal-803318149_sustainable-development-and-climate-change-activity-7330171462202347521-Nomd

Professor, HAW Hamburg and Manchester Metropolitan University

Excerpt:

Dear Colleagues,

Reference: Invitation to Contribute to a Study on Climate-proofing Higher Education

A team from the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” https://lnkd.in/eStJ5JBi at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, together with the European School of Science and Sustainability Research (ESSSR, https://esssr.eu/), the UK Consortium on Sustainability Research (UK-CSR, https://lnkd.in/dvsAuifV), the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP, https://lnkd.in/eFV7M3zZ) and the German-Brazilian Science and Technology Network (GERBRAS-SCIENCENET, https://lnkd.in/diMwHAxs), is leading a study entitled “How Can Higher Education Become Climate-Proof?”, which to explores how HEIs can become “climate-proof” – resilient to climate impacts while advancing sustainability in education, research, and campus management. This survey is part of this effort.

We kindly invite administrators, faculty, and sustainability officers of Higher Education institutions and from all fields of knowledge to take part in this study and fill in this short survey, which will take less than 10 minutes.

Please find here the link to the survey: https://lnkd.in/d74NkV2Y

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHaN6TnS_fVfaiCd9xSobBWSiUtcNUluVbycLXakaY1f5RDw/viewform