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Webinar | Climate Action and International Education: Part One
Target audience: PSI, K-12 and Language.
Please note the second part of this series is December 9th. Participating in the first webinar is not required, however it is suggested.
The current climate emergency sheds light on many of the activities that we engage in as international educators. Carbon emissions from student and staff mobility, marketing and recruitment activities and partnership ventures in the international education field are not insignificant. From flight emissions to the swag, souvenirs and collateral we bring and take back with us on these trips, the impact we have on the climate is substantial.
With many of us “grounded” we have been forced to find alternate ways of connecting, recruiting, teaching and learning. Now is the time to reflect on what role we can play in combating climate change as a sector now and into the future.
Join us in this two-part series where we will discuss what climate action is as it relates to the 17 UN Sustainability Development Goals, what role we can have as international educators in the ongoing conversation around climate action and begin to ask challenging questions about how we can do our part in combatting climate change individually and collectively as a sector.
Part 1: Learning Forum: Understanding Climate Action in International Education
Date: December 2, 2020
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST (1 hour presentation followed by 30-minutes of Q&A)
This learning forum provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of the impact of climate change and how it intersects with the work we do as international educators in British Columbia and across Canada.
Key takeaways:
- An understanding of how climate action fits into the bigger umbrella of sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- An overview of existing research on the intersection of international student mobility and climate change.
- A case study of one international office that has carved out space to engage in climate action
- Best practices for calculating emission footprints in your office.
To register for this event, please click here.
Registration deadline: 10:00 a.m PST, December 2, 2020.
For more information, please contact events@bccie.bc.ca.
Opening:
Elder Larry Grant, Musqueam Elder, was born and raised in Musqueam traditional territory by a traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam family. After 4 decades as a tradesman, Larry enrolled in the First Nations Languages Program, which awoke his memory of the embedded value that the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language has to self-identity, kinship, culture, territory, and history prior to European contact. He is presently assisting in revitalizing hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Musqueam Language and Culture Department and co-teaching the introductory hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ course through UBC.
Larry is the Elder-in-Residence at UBC’s First Nations House of Learning. He is a Faculty Fellow at St. John’s College, and the inaugural Honorary Life Fellow for Green College.
Panellists:
Njoki L Mbũrũ, Graduate in Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Njoki specializes in BSc International Community Development, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, as is currently working part-time as a Workshop Facilitator at UBC. Having spent her childhood with her grandparents at a subsistence farm in Nakuru, Kenya, she is drawn towards policy to resist land grabs and advocate for tenure for small-holder farmers in rural areas across Sub-Saharan Africa. At the moment, Njoki is also finding immense joy in community as part of the 2020 cohort of Vancouver’s Foundation Youth Policy Program and as a Peer Mentor with the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA).
Jennie Moore, Director of Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship, BCIT
Jennie is the Director of the Institute Sustainability at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and leads its Ecocity Centre of Excellence. She was the program convenor of the 2019 Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver and serves as a core advisor to the International Ecocity Standards. Dr. Moore is the creator of the ecoCity Footprint tool that helps cities and citizens identify pathways to sustainable consumption and lifestyles. She serves on the UN Habitat Urban Monitoring Framework Task Team and leads the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Technical Working Group on the Tele-coupled impacts of cities on global biodiversity.
Robin Shields, Professor of Education, University of Bristol
Robin’s research and teaching interests focus on applying new forms of quantitative data collection and analysis (e.g. social media datasets, social network analysis) to study global trends and processes in education. He publishes research across several substantive areas, including higher education internationalization, climate change and higher education, international aid to education, technology and education, and education in conflict-affected contexts. Robin is currently principal investigator on an ESRC-funded study of school management, accountability and learning outcomes in Mumbai and Kathmandu.
Moderator:
CJ Tremblay, Manager of Marketing and IPP, Paragon Testing Enterprises
CJ is a founding members and current Vice-President of the board of the Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE). She has seven years of marketing, strategy, and stakeholder relations experience in international education and language-testing. During her career she has worked for University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, IDP Education, owner of IELTS, and most recently is leading the global marketing and instructional products teams at Paragon Testing Enterprises owner of the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) test.