Creating Local Impact
The EngageLocally Seriesencompassedsix national and community-focused panels exploring how each of us can create positive local change to benefit our communities.
Creating Local Impact
The EngageLocally Seriesencompassedsix national and community-focused panels exploring how each of us can create positive local change to benefit our communities.
Day 1: Impacts
Day 2: Obligations
Saturday, December 3, 2022
The sustainability officer plays an increasingly important role as businesses seek to address the societal impacts of their operations in a changing global climate. A panel of industry leaders discussed the actions their organizations are taking, the challenges to progress they face and the further commitments they must make to support a more sustainable future for all.
CU Leeds School of Business Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR)
Moderator: Kathryn Wendell,director, Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility
Panelists:
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Learning and engaging in conversation about climate change is important, but now we must create solutions for our future. Select members of Congress and leading climate policy advocates discussed how to achieve the climate policy that will bring real change to our communities.
Ѵǻٴǰ:Caitlyn Kim, , D.C.-based public affairs reporter
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Day 3: Solutions
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Interested in building bridges across the aisle to address climate change? This event featured panelists from politically diverse and bipartisan-oriented youth climate advocacy groups in a conversation with a CU student audience.
Ѵǻٴǰ:Matthew Burgess, assistant professor of environmental studies and director,
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Sunday, December 4, 2022
This interactive and creative workshop for climate action included fun activities to gain a feeling of belonging as part of a generation of change makers. Attendees explored how to carry forth the wisdom from our ancestors to avoid the “unsustainable or scorched path” and chart our own course toward a “green path” for an equitable, survivable and thrive-able future. Together, weavingthe social fabric and becoming the ancestors we want to be.