Events

This free four-day virtual event will take place on March 15-18, 2021. Presented by the Soil Food Web School, this summit will convene some of the world’s most knowledgeable experts in Regenerative Agriculture. If you’re a farmer or someone with a passion for the planet, then this event is for you! Diverse subjects include holistic grazing, agroforestry, soil biology, market gardening, mycology, carbon sequestration, human health, ecology and so much more. More than 35,000 people are scheduled to attend.  Why Attend Soil Regen Summit? Increase yields and decrease costs for farmers. Whatever type of farming you practice and no matter...

This online event will take place on March 9th, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm GMT.  From cooking shows showing us the environmental impact of the food we choose to the booming war on plastic and the social impact of fast fashion, we are all more aware of our impact on the environment.  By curbing our consumption and travel plans, the COVID pandemic has forced us all to live more sustainably, and the result is that a vast majority of people now want to embrace sustainability as a way of life. But how?What does it practically mean to live sustainably?What are the...

This briefing will take place online on Monday, March 15th from 8 pm to 9pm ET. The guest speaker will be Eliza Sweren-Becker, from the Brennan Center for Justice who will discuss the latest wave of voter suppression bills. Her presentation will be followed by a question and answer period. In reaction to historic voter turnout in 2020, dozens of states are now considering a new wave of restrictive voter-suppression laws that could make it even harder for young people, poor people, and people of color to vote. This is not only a threat to democracy; it also directly impacts...

The first International Conference on Fake News, Social Media Manipulation and Misinformation (ICFNSMMM) is a digital event that will take place on April 08-09, 2021 in Athens (event code is 21GR04ICFNSMMM) with 9 other events scheduled over the next few years (see below). This conference will address various forms of disinformation which is one of the most pressing concerns of our time.  The Digital Program consists of the e-proceedings book which is available online-only and includes the conference communications (proceedings abstracts and papers). Registered participants can access the digitally available conference proceedings (and certificates) by visiting their profile pages. There are also opportunities...

This Green Economics Institute's Biodivirstiy Summit will take place online on Wednesday 17 February 2021, 10:30 – 14:30 EST. This event is gearing towards stopping the 6th ever mass extinction of species, creating diversity and inclusion in nature. Attendees will discover what they can do personally to get involved, for your own sake and for future generations.  It is well known that expert opinion points to our maltreatment of nature as the leading cause of most pandemics in history including the current one. However with our renewed industrialization of food, this time it is bigger and different and more deeply...

This online conference hosted by Mission Hydrogen will take place on October 8, 2021, which is National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day in the US. This is the largest online hydrogen event in 2021. It will convene thousands of the world’s smartest hydrogen executives, experts, scientists and policy makers. Hydrogen will be the energy carrier of the future. Hydrogen Online Conference (HOC) is the largest online hydrogen event in the world. There will be more than 30 world class speakers, 150 exhibitors, and 15,000 participants. The Hydrogen Online Conference will provide inspiring content including new and groundbreaking ideas from experts...

The Sustainability Week online event will explore how you can unlock investment for the transition to net zero. It will take place during Sustainability Week March 22 -25, 2021.  This event will help you to understand what it will take for investors to reallocate sufficient funds to achieve the energy transition. It will examine the structures and instruments are needed to support climate-friendly investing. It will also consider whether we need to redesign the financial system to fight climate change? Christopher Ailman, the Chief investment officer at CalSTRS will address the question: "How do you unlock investment for net zero?"...

This 60 minute webinar will take place on Friday January 8, 2021, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm EST. This is part of a new SSF webinar series exploring American leadership. Hosted by the Security and Sustainability Forum (SSF) and George Washington University (GWU), this is the fourth webinar in the Leadership in our Time series.  This session will feature a discussion between Ditte Juul-Jørgensen Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, Ambassador András Simonyi. Mrs. Ditte Juul-Jørgensen took up the position of Director General for Energy of the European Commission (DG ENER) in August 2019. She joined DG ENER from a position as...

This Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) webinar will take place on Thursday, 21 January 2021, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Highlights from the TPI's latest Transportation Report  will be broadcast on BrightTALK and it will feature important information on the airline, auto industries as well as international shipping.  This webinar will provide the audience with an introduction to the TPI and their methodology. The TPI will discuss the results from their report and give the audience an opportunity to ask the researchers questions.To register for this webinar click here.

This webinar hosted by the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre in collaboration with the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability explores the effects of the pandemic on greenhouse gas emissions. You can catch up below.  This webinar features Simon Langlois-Bertrand and Shadnoosh Pashaei in discussion about energy-related greenhouse gas emissions post-COVID19. Simon Langlois-Bertrand is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and a member of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University, where his research focuses on the geopolitics of the ecological transition and circular economy paradigms. Shadnoush Pashaei Farahani is a recent graduate from the Department of Building, Civil...