Countdown 2030
Saturday 28 November
UCL Cruciform Building, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT and
Timber Lodge, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 1DY
Countdown 2030 brings together leading experts, academic researchers and the Millennial generation for a one-day debate on the roadmap to 2030: the deadline for the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabledevelopmentgoals>.
Hosted by UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity, Countdown 2030 will debate the SDGs, their relevance and the crucial importance of the millennial generation to achieving them. It combines an academic conference in Bloomsbury with a series of pop-up workshops and installations in London's Olympic Park.
registration is now open<http://ucl.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0cee0818007ae21aaeb2b8aac&id=fe3e39ca2d&e=93968cdc1e> for the Bloomsbury conference, where speakers include leading thinkers and practitioners in global health, early childhood development and economics:
Jonathon Porritt - Director of Forum for the Future. He is an expert in sustainability policies and business-led sustainable practices.
Russell Viner - Reader at the Institute of Child Health, specialising in adolescent medicine. Russell is an expert in adolescent diabetes: a major health issue facing young people in London and the focus of the SDGs here in Britain.
Praveetha Patalay -Researcher at the Evidence Based Practice Unit. She investigates symptoms and measurements of mental health, focusing on childhood and adolescent experiences.
Arthur Kay - co-founder of Bio-Bean, a Lottery award-winning green energy enterprise. He was named Guardian Sustainable Business Leader of the Year 2015.
For more see http://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/countdown-2030 We will be releasing the full agenda soon.
Coming to Bloomsbury?
Registration for the academic conference in Bloomsbury is mandatory. To register, go to UCL Stores<http://ucl.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0cee0818007ae21aaeb2b8aac&id=9a0cb90520&e=93968cdc1e>.
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