SDG-ENGAGED UNIVERSITY
AMERICAS CONFERENCE ON SOLAR RADIATION MODIFICATION
INTERNATIONAL MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP FOR 12 UWI STUDENTS Twelve undergraduate students were among an international cohort of student leaders awarded Millennium fellowships to manage real-world projects that help advance UN SDGs. They were selected from 31,000 applicants worldwide for the semester-long leadership development programme coordinated by the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). Just over 3,000 Millennium Fellows were chosen on 200 university campuses in 37 nations. The UWI Millennium Fellows worked on “The Upliftment Project”, tutoring and providing mentorship to underprivileged children in Kingston, Jamaica, with the goal of increasing young Jamaicans’ access to education, information, and opportunities essential for their holistic development. The undergraduate leaders also received training, connections and credentials as they took action to advance the 17 UN SDGs and 10 UNAI Principles.
Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Thelma Krug, spoke at the 2022 Americas Conference on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) hosted at The UWI Regional Headquarters in August 2022. The conference, organised by the Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research, was themed “Science, Governance, and Implications for the Region”. Presentations were made on current work and research as well as future possibilities in the Americas and across the globe. With the level and nature of climate threats faced by Small Island States of the Caribbean, SRM is a proposed response to some of the risks but cannot be considered an alternative to emissions reductions or adaptation. The conference was a collaborative effort by the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (C2G); the Degrees Initiative (formerly the SRM Governance Initiative); the Inter- American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research and The UWI, with support from the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
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