ICCCAD and PCCB Network Jointly Organizing Webinar on “Role of universities in building long term climate capacities” Date: 31 August 2021 Time: 7:00 pm (Bangladesh time) / 03:00 pm (CET) Where: Online (Zoom) As efforts to implement the Paris Agreement move forward, it is crucial to consider how the existing climate capacity building pattern can be changed so that funding earmarked …
The Role of Universities in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Education and research are explicitly recognized in a number of the SDGs and universities have a direct role in addressing these. However, the contribution of universities to the SDGs is much broader, as they can support the implementation of every one of the SDGs as well as the implementation of the SDG framework itself. Some of these main areas of …
The role of universities in capacity building under the Paris agreement
Although the challenge of climate change is universal, the ability to effectively mitigate climate change and cope with its effects is not. Many of the world’s developing countries have seriously limited capacities to plan and implement adequate climate policies and actions, and these countries “cannot mitigate or adapt to climate change without first having the capacity to do so.”1 Implementation …