Online business, climate change and sustainability events

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This autumn, the delayed COP26 conference will come to Glasgow, bringing together experts from across the world to find a solution to climate change.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, the Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability (B-CCaS) is hosting a series of online events in the lead up to the COP26 conference. B-CCaS @ COP will begin in October and is open to all staff to attend.

Aerial view of forest and river in shape of human lungs.

The events will draw on expertise from across the University community and beyond as business leaders, policy experts and industry specialists come together to investigate and examine topics at the core of business, climate change and sustainability.

Staff expertise

Many business school academics are involved in the events. Ian Cochran, Programme Director of MSc Climate Change Finance & Investment, will join James Close, Head of Climate at the NatWest Group, and Nancy Saich, Chief Climate Change Expert at the European Investment Bank, in Financing a Just Transition.

Sole Garcia Ferrari, Personal Chair of Global Urbanism and Resilience will join Ugochi Anyaka Oluigbo, Freelance Environmental & Conservation Journalist, and Dr Philip Cotton, Director of the Mastercard Foundation, in Governance, Capacity Building and the Global South.

Matthew Brander, Senior Lecturer in Carbon Accounting, will join Derik Broekhoff, Senior Scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Tracey Osborne, Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in the Department of Management of Complex Systems and Director of the Center for Climate Justice at University of California Merced, and Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer at Gold Standard, for Carbon Offsetting – The Great Debate.

Join the conversation

Our students will also be involved, writing Thought Leadership Releases. These concise reads will examine the topics and themes from each event. Academics from, and partners with, the Business School will then scrutinise these arguments from several different perspectives, to provide a well-balanced argument on topics that are not so easily digestible. Live question and answer sessions on these releases are also being planned where the audience can really pick apart the arguments and get involved in the discussion.

The events begin on Tuesday 5 October with a special alumni event and will finish in the first week of November.

You can view and register for the events on Eventbrite.

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