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!
