Climate change in professional ed: Training business students & engineers in sustainable development

This webinar was hosted by the ETC (Education and Training for the Climate) Hub within the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. The ETC Hub Site, with information about other upcoming events and ways to connect, can be found here: https://etc.education.ox.ac.uk/

In this webinar, we explored climate and sustainability in professional education. At Oxford, programmes related to business and entrepreneurship are incorporating principles of sustainability development. Professor Mette Morsing, director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, shared her thoughts on the role of businesses in responding to climate change, including her previous work developing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education. Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience at the University of Colorado Boulder, shared about the work of the Mortenson Center in training a new generation of engineers to tackle global sustainability challenges.