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Blogs by Theme - Green Skills

The role of the EU in the implementation of Asia Pacific SDGs - new Jean Monnet Network funded by EC

I am very pleased to report that an application led by the EU Centre at RMIT, host of the the PASCAL Centre for Australasia, for a Jean Monnet Network on the role of the EU in the implementation of the SDGs in Asia Pacific has been supported. This also involves colleagues from the Australian National University (ANU), the University of Canterbury, the University of Glasgow and the National University of Singapore (NUS), including PASCAL Directors, Robbie Guevera and MIke Osborne.

Connecting to complementary initiatives in holistic development - Strand 3 PASCAL 2016 - Deadline for abstracts - 1 Feb 2016

I am delighted to be leading Strand 3 of the next PASCAL Conference in Glasgow from 3-5 June 2016. Connecting to complementary initiatives in holistic development is a key theme for this conference that is reflected in the Challenge Question of the conference which is directed at ways in which there can be progression in city development from a raft of silo initiatives to more holistic and integrated development of sustainable cities.

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste and for new models of sustainable development is a new project  led within the Education for Global Citizenship Unit of the University of Glasgow by Dr Alan Britton and also involving Dr Jesus Granados Sanchez.

Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future

The March and April Newsletter of the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future (featured below) contains much that will be of interest to PASCAL subscribers.

This includes information on a webinar on Goals and Targets in the context of the Open Working Group on SDGs to be held on 16 April.

Climate change and sustainable development goals

A new blog post by Joy Hyvarinen ( considers climate change and the new sustainable development goals. It suggests that thinking about the climate treaty’s goal to slow climate change to a level that is not dangerous could help to design the new goals.

 

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