Friday, October 9, 2026

Universities urged to build coalitions to address SDGs - Kalinga Seneviratne, University World News

Universities should take part in growing “multi-stakeholder coalitions” in society to strengthen education for sustainable development (ESD). That was the key message of a two-hour webinar organised on 30 September by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) of the United Nations and attended by over 150 participants from across the world, many of whom were not academics. In presenting a HESI toolkit on how to grow the green and sustainable economy, the convenor, Debra Rowe, who has been the president of the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development for twenty years, said that by bringing in a diversity of groups working on green development, including finance and development experts, “we've been talking about a multi-stakeholder coalition.”

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20261002102236341