Free online Eco-Seminars organized by the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council
About the Event
Cambridge Schools Eco-Council is organised two free 60 minutes Online Eco-Seminars to raise awareness of key sustainability challenges and solutions. Children, students, families and members of the public registered for free over Eventbrite and participated online over Zoom. Each Online Eco-Seminar included student and expert speakers.
Eco-Seminar 1: Sustainable water management, flood defenses and protecting our beautiful streams and rivers - Wednesday 17 February 2021
Focus: How can we better protect and sustainably manage our beautiful freshwater resources, preventing floods and depletion, and saving our streams and rivers?
Speakers:
Ecocouncil speaker: Junayd Islam (Cambridge Schools Eco-Council former Co-Chair, key organizer of student climate strikes and city council livestreamed Eco-Council meetings).
Experts: Ian Halls (Leader, Cambridge Friends of the Earth) and Fabiana Piccoli Araújo Santos (LLM Candidate at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of Itacaré Water Caring Project Brazil)
Eco-Seminar 2: Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles through Preventing Plastic Waste - Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Focus: How can we better promote and practice more sustainable lifestyles at home and through our shopping habits, even during the lockdown, preventing plastic waste and protecting our fragile rivers, oceans and ecology?
Chairs: Nico Roman (Cambridge Schools Eco-Council Co-Chair, Voices of Future Generations Child Ambassador, Kings College School Eco-Society Co-leader) and Paloma Bargh (Cambridge Schools Eco-Council Deputy Chair and Eco-Activities Committee Co-Chair, Saint Johns College School Eco-Society Co-leader)
Speakers:
Child author speaker: Freya Tikva (Gold Award Laureate, Voices of Future Generations (VoFG) Children's Rights Initiative Child Author for Europe, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council Deputy Chair and Co-Chair of Eco-Activities Committee.
Ecocouncil speaker: Luana Fernandes Seixas (Cambridge Schools Eco-Council Communications Officer, Student Leader of Long Road Sixth Form Eco-Council, key organizer of student climate strikes and eco-seminars).
Experts: Emma Thomas (Co-founder and Director, Full Circle Zero Waste Retail, Ecologist) and Matthew Clemens (Manager, Cambridge Waitrose Grocery Store) tbc.
Please note: Students and children participated with permission and under the supervision of parents/guardians from their homes.
PAST ONLINE ECO-SEMINARS
In partnership with Cambridge Schools Eco-Council we organised 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 free over Zoom from April 21 to June.
Each Online Eco-Seminar focused 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 included student Eco-Councillors and UN Voices of Future Generations child authors / ambassadors, together with world-class experts, provided a 25-minute introduction to a sustainability challenge, and discuss creative local and solutions.
We have recorded these eco-seminars (see below) in case you missed any of them or simply if you would like to watch them again.
Eco-Seminar 1: Global Climate Change, the Paris Agreement and Local Solutions - April 21, 2020
Expert: Professor Christina Voigt, Ph.D., LL.M-Env (University of Oslo international environmental law expert and professor, IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Member and UNFCCC Compliance Committee Member)
Child author speaker: Jona David, founding Eco-Councillor of the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council, award-winning UNESCO VoFG Child Author of The Cosmic Climate Invention and other books, and student at Winchester College, UK
Eco-council speaker: Virginia Denmead, Cambridge Schools Eco-Councillor, Deputy Chair and Secretary, leader of St Bedes Eco-Society and student at St Bedes School, UK.
Eco-Seminar 2: Agriculture, Food Systems and Climate Resilience - May 5, 2020
Child Author speaker: Rehema Kibugi (UN Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative Child Author, Kenya)
Eco-Council speaker: Magnus Bramwell (Cambridge School's Eco-Council Councillor and Secretary UK)
Expert: Advocate Ayman Cherkaoui (International Jurist in Climate Change Law, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact in Morocco, Lead Counsel for Climate Change at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law)
Expert: Dr. Amy Munro-Faure (Coordinator at the Living Lab for Sustainability at the University of Cambridge)
Eco-Seminar 3: Climate Change, Energy Policy and Sustainable Communities - May 19, 2020
Child author speaker: Jasper Chin-Moody (UN Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative Child Author, Australia)
Eco-Council speaker: Harry Auld (Cambridge School's Eco-Council Councillor and Treasurer, UK).
Expert: Professor Laura Diaz Anadon (University of Cambridge Climate Change Policy Professor, University of Cambridge Peterhouse Bye-Fellow, C-EENG Fellow, Energy Policy Research Group Associate Researcher, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Associate, 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Lead Author).
Expert: MS Helene Kotter (Architect, Owner of Architecture Practice, Member of the Voice's of Future Generations Children's Book Series Leadership Council). In partnership with the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council
Eco-Seminar 4: Nature, Biodiversity and Sustainable Landscapes - June 2, 2020
Child author speaker: Adelyn Newman-Ting (Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative Child Author).
Eco-Council speaker: Nico Roman (Cambridge School's Eco-Council Co-Chair) and Freya Lundskær-Nielsen (Eco-Council Deputy Chair).
Experts: Ms. Hawa Sydique (Research and Communications Manager at the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute).
Tara Atleo (Environmental economics researcher and indigenous sustainable development professional from the Ahousaht First Nation in BC, Canada, PhD student University of Waterloo, Laureate Canada 150 Senate Medal).
Iain Webb (Cambridge City Greenways Project Officer).
Eco-Seminar 5: Consumerism and Waste - June 16, 2020
Child author speaker: Andrea Wilson (Gold Award Laureate, Voices of Future Generations (VoFG) Children's Rights Initiative, Child Author for North America of Sarah's Journey for Tomorrow, blog post author on the Sustainable Development Goals and Child Rights).
Eco-council speaker: Luana Fernandes (Cambridge Schools Eco-Council Communications Officer, Student of Parkside School, key organiser of student climate strikes and eco-seminars).
Expert: Dr. Markus Gehring (JSD, Dr iur, MA, LLM, Law and Land Economy Lecturer; Jean Monet Chair of European Law and Sustainable Development; Centre for International Sustainable Development Law Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment & Financial Law; Hughes Hall Law Director of Studies at the University of Cambridge).
Expert: Prof. Damilola S. Olawuyi, Professor of Energy and Environmental Law
Please note: Students participated 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 Green waste composter design challenge for Cambridge school strikers