Meeting Report

RCE Kano launches one million tree campaign against Sahara encroachment

The RCE Kano stakeholder, the Center for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change together with RCE Kano is launching a campaign to plant one million economic trees to condense the Sahara desert encroachment .

Launch of 1 Million Economic Trees for the Sahel Initiative: Towards reversing desert encroachment and restoring degraded lands along 11 frontline states in Northern Nigeria

28 November, 2015, Zamfara State, Nigeria

The invitation letter can be downloaded below.

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Nigeria
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HESI organises COP21 Side Event at UNESCO Headquarters

14 October 2015, UNESCO Headquarters

The public seminar ‘From Rio to Paris: Higher Education for Climate Change Action’, on 14 October 2015, was recognized as the official side event of the XXI Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21). The meeting was attended by representatives of the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) and chaired by Prof Dzul Razak, the President of the International Association of Universities (IAU).

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France

RCE Iskandar co-organizes the International Conference of Low Carbon Asia (ICLCA)

RCE Iskandar with the support of IGES (Institute of Global Environmental Strategies), Japan, successfully organized the International Conference of Low Carbon Asia (ICLCA) hosted by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and held in conjunction with the 4th Annual Meeting of LoCARNet (Low Carbon Asia Research Network) in Johor Bahru, 11-12 October 2015.

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Malaysia

Report on the 8th ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme on SCP and SWITCH-Asia Workshop

8th ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme on Sustainable Production and Consumption (SCP) and SWITCH-Asia Workshop on “ASEAN and SCP Governance in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

by Hanna Stahlberg

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Malaysia
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Outcomes of AASHE in Minneapolis, USA

AASHE Conference (25-28 October 2015, Minneapolis, USA)

by Philip Vaughter, Research Fellow, UNU-IAS

edited by Hanna Stahlberg, Communications Associate, UNU-IAS

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) held its annual conference at the end of October, marking the organization’s first decade with the theme of “Transforming Sustainability Education.”

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United States

5th African RCE Conference, Report on RCE Members' Session

Meeting brief on RCE members' session, 15 October, 2015

by David Ongare, NEMA

edited by Hanna Stahlberg, UNU-IAS

The African RCE Conference took place on 14-16 October, 2015 in Entebbe, Uganda. With 32 participants from different parts of the African continent, the closed strategic RCE member session on day two of the conference was well attended. The three hour meeting (14:00-17:00) gave the opportunity to discuss several major items on the agenda.

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