The Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations has set Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) to be achieved by 2030. These goals are meant to ensure a better and more sustainable future for all. They address challenges such as: poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. In this lecture series, you will gain insight into how some of these challenges relate to one another. You will also learn about different viewpoints on sustainability.
The individual lectures
1. Life Cycle Assessment, for or Against Greenwashing? (Samani / 13 Jan)
2. A Biological Approach to Sustainable Buildings (Van Marken Lichtenbelt /20 Jan)
3. Will we Save Nature when Nature will Save us? (De Kraker / 3 Feb)
4. Towards Climate Neutrality in the European Union: Current Prospects and Challenges from a Legal Perspective (Peeters / 10 Feb)
5. New Business Models in the Circular Economy (Bocken / 24 Feb)
Dates
Wednesday 13, 20 January and 3, 10, 24 Febuary – 19.30 to 21.30
Costs whole series
UM students for free
UM employees and students from other schools €12,50
Others €25
Registration
You can register here for this lecture series.
About the speaker
Prof. Joop de Kraker
Professor of Sustainability Assessment, MSI, UM
Prof. Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt
Professor of Ecological Energetics and Health, department of Human Biology NUTRIM, FHML, UM
Pouya Samani, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM), FSE, UM
Prof. Marjan Peeters
Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Faculty of Law, UM
Prof. Nancy Bocken
Professor of Sustainable Business Management and Practice, MSI, UM
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