SDG Seminar: Climate Change, Climate Crisis & Climate Action
This SDG Seminar revolves around the questions: What is the climate crisis? How have we come here? And what is our way out? Sustainability and the climate crisis/change can be an overwhelming concept. That’s why in this special edition of the SDG seminar series addressing especially new students at Maastricht University and introducing you/them to Sustainability, we would like to address these daunting questions in order to understand the full spectrum of what we are dealing with as a society.
Our guest lecturer René Gabriels will give an insight into climate change and the climate crisis and will unravel it to the core by explaining the system that underlies this problem and what the alternatives are. He will end with a few lessons for to take into consideration while working on and thinking about sustainability and thus hopefully leave us with motivation to become active ourselves.
René Gabriëls is lecturer at Maastricht University. The main fields of research are social philosophy, sociology of knowledge, philosophy of language and sociology of stratification. His research focuses on democracy, global justice, human rights, poverty, the changed role of philosophy and the relation between semantics and pragmatics. He wrote books about intellectuals, racism and local democracy and articles about the afore mentioned topics.
SDG Seminar Series
The SDG seminars are intended to approach sustainability issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. In these SDG seminar series professionals in sustainability speak about the challenges and chances they face in practice. This is your chance to learn from their experience and to ask your questions!
This seminar is related to all 17 SDG's.
More information and ideas
We are open to any ideas that you may have for the SDG seminars! These seminars will take place on a regular basis, so if you have any ideas or interesting projects that we can talk about, please let us know.
Do you still have questions about the SDG seminars or do you have any tips? Contact Sustainable UM 2030 or Green Office.
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