The COP28 session “Greening higher education: Transforming competences and practices” will highlight the different roles, responsibilities, and potentials of higher education in promoting the achievement of all the SDGs in connection with and with an emphasis on SDG 13. It will also define and describe the process by which sustainability competencies can be integrated into all degree programs, knowledge production and sharing, science, technology, and innovation transfer at the higher education level.

UNESCO IESALC, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), and University of Helsinki, along with other Greening Higher Education partners, will come together in moving forward the conversation of good policies and practices towards future implementation of concrete actions, with a focus on the Global South.

Additionally, will share challenges, good practices, and actions for moving forward in greening higher education carried out by UN agencies, civil society, the private sector, the public sector, youth, students, and academia.

Several UNESCO policies have called for a transformation toward sustainability through education and there is growing understanding that universities play a key role in achieving the Paris targets, emphasizing the imperative for universities to intensify their efforts and innovate their approaches in training the next generation of leaders and change-makers.

Objectives

Mobilizing the strengths and insights of different stakeholders within the space of greening higher education, this event aims to provide the following main objectives:

• To highlight the different roles, responsibilities, and potentials of higher education in promoting the achievement of all the SDGs in connection to and with an emphasis on SDG 13.

• To define and describe the process where sustainability competences can be integrated into all degree programmes, knowledge production and sharing, science technology and innovation transfer at higher education level.

• To share challenges, good practices and actions forward in greening higher education carried out by UN agencies, civil society, private sector, public sector, youth, students, and Academia.

Agenda and participants here.