Colombia. This Tuesday, April 17 and until Wednesday, April 18, the Green Universities Forum will be held in the city of Medellín. This event organized by Low Carbon City and Eafit University, seeks to make the university visible as a laboratory to generate solutions that promote sustainable development and address climate change.
The Forum, open to the public, will have conversations with experts and collective creation workshops that connect citizenship and the sustainable challenges of the city with academia. Participants include Julie Newman, MIT's Director of Sustainability; Ian Monroe, Professor of Energy and Climate Change at Stanford University, and The Minister of the Environment, Luis Gilberto Murillo.
Colombia included as one of the means of implementation to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement, in which is the goal of reducing emissions by 20% by 2030, the participation of universities. Specifically, a strategy with networks of universities and research groups on topics related to the main goals proposed as part of the mitigation and adaptation contributions.
"We want to put on the public agenda the importance of the university as a relevant actor that can contribute to the achievement of politics and at the same time promote transformations from pedagogy, research and infrastructure," explained Juan Manuel Restrepo, co-director of Low Carbon City.
In this edition it is expected to bring together more than forty universities, national and international and the entire community of higher education, in order to share and transmit experiences.
The event is free and opens its doors at the Founders Auditorium at 8 am. More information on https://lowcarbon.city/es/foro-universidades-verdes/
