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Local Perspectives on COP29: A Just Transition to a Green World
10 Feb 2025
Happening On
12/02/2025
COP29’s theme of ‘In Solidarity for a Green World’ set out ambitious aims to address climate change challenges.
90 days on, we want to reflect and look forward to what this means in terms of the actions we are taking locally. This online event will draw together academic speakers and industry and community leaders to discuss how research can address the challenges of global climate action. The lunchtime event will include a panel of speakers on the topic of a just, orderly, and equitable energy transition and an audience discussion.
The event, co-organised by University College Cork (Ireland) the University of Plymouth (UK), and UMass (Lowell) (USA), will demonstrate how collaboration can be an approach to addressing global challenges.
Aims
- To share knowledge and insights from COP29 to local audiences
- To mobilise resources and capacity on COP29 objectives around action ‘at home’
- To enable discussion around the focussed topic of a just transition for a green world
Speakers
- Professor Deborah Greaves OBE FREng, Director of the UK's Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, University of Plymouth, UK
- Dr Fionn Rogan, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Research Institute, SFI MaREI Centre, University College Cork, Ireland
- Professor Juliette Rooney-Varga, Director of Climate Change Initiative, UMass Lowell, USA
- Sumaya Mohammed, Climate Activist, Law Student and UCC Delegate at COP29