Caucasus Sustainable Lifestyles Round Table: Learning To Live Better And Lighter

Name: Caucasus Sustainable Lifestyles Round Table: Learning To Live Better And Lighter
Start: 2024-03-14
End: 2024-03-15
Location: Georgia

14 - 15 March 2024

Tbilisi, Georgia

Overview

Background

Participants

Date: 14 – 15 March 2024

Time: 11:00–18:30 Tbilisi time (GMT+4), 08:00–15:30 CET

Hybrid:

In-person venue: Business and Technology University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83643777933?pwd=jnZk6CPLjaOCy4Q4actgZQiJ29LS1j.1

GO4SDGs, in collaboration with the Kazakh German University, has organized a peer-to-peer learning roundtable forum for education stakeholders from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

This forum aims to share best practices, spark meaningful discussions, and explore innovative strategies for integrating sustainable lifestyles within universities in the Caucasus region.

Expected outcomes:

The universities of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia gained a better understanding of sustainable lifestyles’ and “green nudges” concepts and their practical application.
The universities of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia learned and gave feedback on the results of green jobs market analysis and sustainability education needs and gaps analysis in Caucasus and Central Asia;
Universities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are motivated to join the Sustainable Lifestyles University Network and its Activity Plan until 2025.

Have you ever considered the impact of your daily decisions? Our future depends on the actions we take today. By 2050, the global population is expected to reach a staggering 10 billion, leading to increased consumption across food, fashion, travel, and more. Two to three billion of these new citizens will be young consumers who will play a critical role in shaping sustainable consumption patterns.

UNEP is accelerating progress towards a healthy planet and shared prosperity by promoting sustainable lifestyles and consumption to enable us to live better and lighter in a 1.5-degree world. The concept of 1.5°C lifestyles emphasize how individuals, governments, and businesses consume and the need to transform our consumption patterns. By reducing and minimizing waste, adopting reuse and recycling practices, we contribute to circular economy growth and lessen our carbon footprint.

The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) is advancing regional implementation of sustainable lifestyles as well as initiatives promoting circularity in high impact sectors.

The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) is actively advancing the implementation of sustainable lifestyles. In Europe and Central Asia, GO4SDGs works with universities to empower youth to embrace sustainable 1.5-degree lifestyles. In 2022, a partnership with the Kazakh-German University launched "Green Nudges" initiatives and research projects to encourage positive behaviour change. This collaboration also led to the creation of the Sustainable Lifestyles University Network (SLUN) in 2023. This network, which currently includes over 25 universities primarily from Central Asia, fosters knowledge sharing and promotes sustainable practices on campuses.

As the demand for knowledge and capacity-building in sustainable living and related areas like food, mobility, housing, and leisure (including consumer goods and tourism) increases, the Sustainable Lifestyles University Network continues to grow.

The participants in this event will include faculty members, master's and PhD students from universities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as experts in sustainability, environmental studies, and education. Representatives from NGOs and international organizations will also be present.

The event will be held in hybrid mode. Simultaneous Russian-English translation and recording will be provided.