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50-Minute Sessions

Shared Interest (SI)

Empowering Global Citizens to Create Climate Solutions Through International Education

Thursday, May 29, 2025
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM PDT
Location: SDCC, Room 6E
Join this session to review best practices for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on climate action in international education through education, engagement, strategic policies, and operational practices. Presenters discuss how institutions at all stages of their climate action journey can harness international education's unique capacity of equipping global citizens to address global challenges.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the critical role of international education in empowering future climate leaders through education, opportunities, and examples of action.
  • Contribute to higher education institutions' climate action and sustainability plans from an international education office's unique sphere of influence.
  • Assess the state of climate action in international education, the successes, challenges, and largest areas for growth through recent benchmarking insights.