FREE ONLINE ECO-SEMINARS FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND THE WORLD!

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Cambridge Schools Eco-Council is organising a mini-series of free 60 minute Online Eco-Seminars to raise awareness of key sustainability challenges and solutions, while schools have been forced online in many countries. Children, students, families and members of the public can register for free over Eventbrite and participate online over Zoom, 4-5pm (UK time) each fortnight from Tuesday 21 April to Tuesday 16 June. Each Online Eco-Seminar focuses on a key sustainable development goal, such as Climate Action (SDG 13), Protecting and Restoring Life on Land (SDG 15) or Agriculture and Food Systems (SDG 2). Each Online Eco-Seminar includes student and expert speakers.

Over zoom, after a 15 mins for tech testing and interactions from 3:45pm to 4pm, student Eco-Councillors and UN Voices of Future Generations child authors / ambassadors, together with world-class experts, will provide a 25-minute introduction to a sustainability challenge, and discuss creative local and solutions. For a further 25 minutes, participants can ask questions and discuss potential solutions and ways to raise education and awareness interactively, followed by a 10-minute closing from the experts and youth speakers by 5pm.

 Upcoming Eco-Seminars: 

Eco-Seminar 3: Climate Change, Energy Policy and Sustainable Communities - Tuesday, May 19

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- Child author speaker: Jasper, Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative 

- Eco-Council speaker: Harry, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council

- Experts: Prof Laura Dias Anadon, University of Cambridge and M Helene Kotter, Eco-Architecture

Eco-Seminar 4: Nature, Biodiversity and Sustainable Landscapes - Tuesday, June 2

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- Child author speaker: Addy, Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative 

- Eco-Council speaker: Nico, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council

- Experts: Dame Fiona Reynolds and Ms Hawa Sydique, University of Cambridge

Eco-Seminar 5: Consumerism and Waste - Tuesday, June 16

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- Child author speaker: Andrea, Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative 

- Eco-council speaker: Luana, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council

- Experts: Ms Naomi Klein, Journalist and Dr Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge

Past Eco-Seminars:

Eco-Seminar 1: Global Climate Change, the Paris Agreement and Local Solutions - Tuesday, April 21

- Child author speaker: Jona, Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative 

- Eco-council speaker: Virginia, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council

- Experts: Prof Cristina Voigt, University of Oslo and Cllr Rosy Moore, Cambridge City Council

Eco-Seminar 2: Agriculture, Food Systems and Climate Resilience Tuesday, May 5

- Child author speaker: Rehema, Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative 

- Eco-Council speaker: Magnus, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council

- Experts: M Ayman Cherkaoui, CISDL and Dr Amy Munro-Faure, The Living Lab

Please note: Students participate with permission and under supervision of parents/guardians, from their homes.

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For a flavour of other local activities by the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council, please see www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/...06343/.

Jona David speaks at YouthStrike4Climate in Cambridge, UK

YouthStrike4Climate brings climate activism to streets of Cambridge

Jona David, who at 13 has already had four books published and is an award-winning UN child author, spoke at the YouthStricke4Climate.

"I'm Jona David from Kings' College School here in Cambridge. It's brilliant to see so many other pupils out today! I'm a UN child author my 4th book is coming out this spring. 'The Cosmic Climate Invention.' I'm speaking against the risks and terrible impacts of climate change, today!

If temperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees, kids all across the world will be hurt or even die in floods and typhoons. It’s urgent. We must speak truth to power. We must raise our voices for future generations. We must act now, locally and globally to stop climate change."

Around 400 school and college pupils took part in climate strikes in Cambridge on February 15, 2019 to call for urgent action to protect the environment against rampaging ecological destruction.

They were part of a national YouthStrike4Climate day of protest which saw thousands of children and teenagers take to the streets in around 60 towns and cities across the UK. The campaigners came from schools and colleges across the region including Chesterton Community College, Impington Village College, Parkside, Coleridge Community College, King's School, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Witchford Village College and Cambourne Village College.

Check the full story by Cambridge Independent here

“If temperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees, kids all across the world will be hurt or even die in floods and typhoons. It’s urgent. We must speak truth to power. We must raise our voices for future generations. We must act now, locally and globally to stop climate change.”

—  Jona David, speaking at the Cambridge schools strike for action against climatechange.