9/26/2023 0 Comments Ncse drawdown conferenceWebinar Series: Please join Fourth Universalist’s Environmental Justice Team as we explore issues of workers rights in our food systems, the effects of agriculture and food distribution on climate change, food insecurity and hunger in NYC, and food waste and composting. A free screening will take place online on January 19 at 6:30pm, followed by a 60 minute webinar provided by Interfaith Power & Light. Weaving historical milestones with current day stories of environmental injustice, the film is an excellent tool for educational and community engagement. This short film is a timely, powerful look at fifty years of the Clean Air Act and the challenges we still face to ensure healthy air for everyone. Contact Ginger to get the zoom link at The Fight for Healthy Air – monthly meeting of NC350 Alliance (every 2nd Thursday). In 2020, she set up the Platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT), a private company, offering a collaborative platform to identify and bring to the market, innovative and integrated industrial solutions that substantially can contribute to the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals.ĭr Vandeweerd has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and a master’s in chemistry from the University of Gent, Belgium.Take action to protect our climate in 2021 with these recommendations from our congregation.Ī Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos (Verso 2019)īig World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom and Mattias Klum (Yale University Press 2015) ![]() She also is the co-founder of the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Conference Series (G-STIC) ( and was its policy director from 2017 to 2019. She currently is co-leading several entrepreneurial initiatives, setting up innovative vehicles to finance and bring to the market new sustainable asset classes. ![]() Before the UN, she taught at the University of Zambia, conducted research on African Sleeping sickness, and headed the environmental reporting department in the Flemish Government, Belgium. She was the Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact, the leadership platform for responsible corporate policies and practices, and served – and still serves - as a board and/or advisory member to several international, UN, and national organisations, including CCICED (China), CLASP (US), CfRN (Global), GESI (ICT companies), and DERA (EU). ![]() ![]() During these years, Dr Vandeweerd directed the production of more than 300 publications, chaired hundreds of international meetings, and contributed to all major environmental conferences of the past two decades. Her work spans diverse fields from environmental monitoring and assessments, green economic transformations, and global environmental norm setting, to environmental, financial, regulatory, technological, and institutional capacity building for Sustainable Development in over 160 countries. She directed the UNDP Environment and Energy Group for over 8 years, with an annual turnover of over 1.5 billion dollars. She initiated the UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report series and held several senior functions at UNEP. Veerle Vandeweerd, a Belgian national, has more than 35 years of experience in global, national, and local Sustainable Development policy and program development and implementation, including 20+ years at the United Nations system.
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