COP15 and Climate Change Education Seminar

Invitation to deal with Global Climate Change and Education during the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009

Invitation to high profile seminar during COP15 in Copenhagen about Climate Change Education:

Can education change the climate?

Date 11.12.09

Time
09.00 – 17.00

Place:
The Danish School of Education, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark

Conference website

Registration for the seminar on ESD and Climate Change Education during COP15

The Danish School of Education (DPU) and the Climate Panel at Aarhus University will host a conference in relation to the COP15 conference.

The conference on 11 December 2009 will be the last of five conferences about the importance of involvements of stakeholders such as NGO’s, journalists, local policy-makers, business etc.

The aim of this conference is to emphasize the importance of public involvement and education as well as the communication between experts and the public for the implementation of any climate policy

Read Interview with Professor Jeppe Læssøe from the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University: The climate crisis calls for a new educational era

Programme of Climate Change Education Seminar during COP15

9.00 – 9.30
Registration incl. coffee amd tea

9.30 – 9.40
Welcome
Pro-vice chancellor Søren Frandsen, Aarhus University

9.40 – 9.50
Introduction to the themes of the conference
Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University

9.50 – 10.50
Opening address 1:
Why we disagree about clima change
Professor Mike Hulme

Michael Hulme from the Schhol of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia has recently written the book ‘Why we disagree about clima change: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity’.

10.50 – 11.15
Break: Coffee and tea

11.15 – 12.30

Part I
Climate change education as education for sustainable development

Introduction on the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes (IALEI) and the joint project Climate Change and Education: The Response from Education
Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University

Climate change and the need to re-think education
Dean, Professor Chris Husbands, Institute of Education, University of London

Recommendations and promising practices. Eight recommendations from IALEI to policy decision-makers and five examples of promising practices.
Professor Jeppe Læssøe, DPU, Aarhus University

12.30 – 13.30
Lunch

Press conference with

* Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University
* Dean, Professor Chris Husbands, Institute of Education, University of London
* Professor Jeppe Læssøe, DPU, Aarhus University

13.30 – 16.00

Part II
Climate communication: A weapon in the fight against climate change?

13.30 – 14.30

Opening address 2:
Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of www.350.org, co-founder of International Day of Climate Action

14.30 – 15.00
A journalistic perspective
Journalist Andrew Revkin, The New York Times

15.00 – 15.30
A political perspective
Professor Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University

15.30 – 16.00
Panel discussion and closing remarks

16.00 – 17.00
Reception

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