ASAP Events

Global Climate Change Week (GCCW) aims to encourage academic communities – including academics, students, and non-academic staff at universities – to engage with each other, their communities, and policy makers on climate change.

What could you do for GCCW 2016 (Oct 10-16)? Some activities are very simple and require little preparation. For example, you can simply make a time to talk with your colleagues and students about climate change and how you can contribute to tackling it.

Other activities require a little more preparation. Here are a few suggestions, with links to examples universities organised for the first GCCW last year.

• Panel discussions on one or another aspect of climate change (like this one at the University of California Berkeley, or this one at University College London)
• Special seminars or lectures on climate change (like this lecture series at the University of Bath or this lecture series at Heythrop College London)
• Divestment events (like this one at the University of New South Wales or this one at the University of East Anglia) (for information about divestment see 350.org’s website)
• Student competitions, like this climate change video contest at Arizona State University
• World Climate Simulation, a role-playing exercise of the UN climate change negotiations, using an interactive computer model to analyze the results of the mock-negotiations during the event

For more examples of activities see here and here.

If you would like to register for GCCW 2016, please do so here.

And please help to spread the word about GCCW 2016!

Academics Stand Against Poverty will be co-hosting the conference “Effective Altruism and Beyond” on May 6th and 7th at Yale University. The conference will explore the philanthropic movement known as effective altruism with talks from several prominent academics including Angus Deaton and Peter Singer.

The full conference description is available on the Yale Global Justice Program website. For more information, please contact newphilanthropyatyale@gmail.

If you are in DC on the evening of April 14 and are interested in Tax Justice, here’s an event you might want to attend:

Thursday, April 14, 2016
5:30 – 8:30 PM
Harry Harding Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW, Washington, D.C.

The Institute for International Economic Policy at the George Washington University is pleased to host a film screening, book release, and panel discussion on Thursday, April 14. The program is being supported by former IIEP Director James Foster, a renowned authority on development, inequality, and poverty, and by Professor Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

This event is open to the press and advance copies of Global Tax Fairness are available to the press upon request. Please contact James Henry at (516)-721-1452 with additional questions.

More information including the panel is available here.