“Aiming Higher” Series Our climate action work was featured in a multi- university collaborative project with the International Association of Universities (IAU) and the BBC Global News. Its mini-documentary, entitled Tackling the Effects of Climate Change , formed part of a series called Aiming Higher, which premiered at the IAU’s International Conference in Puebla, Mexico in November 2019
and showcases how universities are instrumental to the development of sustainable and democratic societies, shaping minds, promoting diversity, ethical leadership and social responsibility. Thirty-four IAU member institutions from all five continents took part in the ambitious project.
by climate change on people, infrastructure, and ecosystems. The authors reemphasized the importance of the year 2020 in terms of climate action and the opportunity to strengthen emission reduction pledges in line with the Paris Agreement of 2015, concluding that “Tackling climate change is a tall order. However, there is no alternative from the perspective of human well-being and too much at stake not to act urgently on this issue.”
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