What are 1.5 lifestyle changes and how will we live?
How can we upscale sustainable consumption and production in the COVID-19 era?
How can the ingenuity of youth be harnessed to to create new green business models?
In this #GGKPwebinar, we hear from experts from the European Commission, SEED – an organization that promoted entrepreneurship for sustainable development, and two youth activists/green entrepreneurs that are making change happen on the ground. Panelists delve into the difficult conversations around the government context we need to build back better, and the new business models needed to make healthy, sustainable living a reality for all.
Recording
Speakers
Lewis Akenji, Executive Director of SEED
Louise Mabulo, Founder, The Cacao Project
Sebastián Muñoz, Experiencies Design and UX, Rutopia
Hugo Schally, Head of the Multilateral Environmental Cooperation Unit at the European Commission
Moderated by Solitaire Townsend, Co-Founder of Futerra
More about the Sustainable Living webinar series
This is the final session in a 7-part webinar series organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Sustainable Living. The series brought together thought leaders - almost 1 year into COVID-19 - to reflect on how to harness this window of opportunity to drive change for healthier, more sustainable living. Previous sessions have focused on:
- Getting serious about living: 1.5-degree lifestyles and opportunities from visionaries in a post COVID world (23 June 2020)
- There’s no place like home: Cities making sustainable living a reality (7 July 2020)
- Keeping fashion close to home for better and lighter living (12 August 2020)
- Dispelling myths on sustainability and people: If it’s the right thing to do why isn’t it (25 August)
- Going to work or on vacation: Mobility in a post COVID context (15 September 2020)
- Changing how and what we eat: Who can lead the way? (15 October 2020)
- Tell me more and (maybe) I’ll do it: Consumer information for sustainable (20 October 2020)