The Future of Higher Education in a Climate Crisis Federico Bortoletto, Steve Levett, Francesco Pomponi, Tony G Reames and Sue Willman
Event details
We are facing a global climate crisis which requires urgent collaborative action to help tackle challenges, build understanding and capacity, influence policy and change mindsets. How can we work together to address this pressing issue and what does this mean for the future of higher education?
Our panel session brings together experts from the higher education, environmental and legal sectors to discuss how unique new approaches are helping to tackle these challenges.
Discover how at York, this includes the University of York Interdisciplinary Modules and the Sustainability Clinic. Find out how, as a university for public good, the University of York is supporting our local community to tackle their specific sustainability issues and priorities.
Our international panel of speakers includes Steve Levett and Francesco Pomponi of the University of York, UK; Federico Bortoletto of KaosPilot, Aarhus, Denmark; Tony G Reames of the University of Michigan, US; and Sue Willman KC of King's College London, UK.
This event is presented by the University of York’s Sustainability Clinic.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
About the speakers
Federico Bortoletto is Head of Studies and Curriculum Designer at KaosPilot in Aarhus, Denmark. Federico is a professional experimenter who is constantly propelled by “the why”. Doing what he does allows him to reimagine education and empower students through supporting multi-stakeholder innovation.
Professor Steve Levett has over 25 years experience of clinical legal education in both the public and private higher education sector. In 2019, he co-founded the Student Law Clinic Global Day of Action for climate justice and in 2023 he became co-founding Director of the Sustainability Clinic, a multi-disciplinary student clinic focusing on issues related to climate change.
Professor Francesco Pomponi is Chair of Sustainability and Environment at the York School of Architecture, UK. Francesco's expertise lies in sustainable and environmental design, life cycle assessment, embodied and whole life carbon, and the circular economy. His research spans across scales (from individual building materials to optimal configurations for the development of entire cities), and geographies (from the assessment of local building materials in Sub-Saharan Africa to the global supply-demand balance of timber for low carbon constructions across continents).
Dr Tony G Reames is Tishman Professor of Environmental Justice and Director of the SEAS Detroit Sustainability Clinic, University of Michigan, US. A presidential appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration serving as Deputy Director for Energy Justice and Principal Deputy Director for State and Community Energy Programs at the US Department of Energy, he is a multidisciplinary scholar, with degrees in engineering and social science. His research investigates the fair and equitable access to affordable, reliable, clean energy, and explores the production and persistence of energy disparities across race, class, and place.
Sue Willman is an Assistant Director and Supervising solicitor in King’s Legal Clinic where she is developing the human rights and environmental law clinic. She is also a senior consultant at public interest legal aid firm Deighton Pierce Glynn, and a solicitor since 1996, who specialises in public law, particularly strategic litigation on behalf of migrants, and more recently environmental and international human rights.
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