Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network are inviting the Climate Leadership Network and friends from all disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives to submit proposals for the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit February 6-8, 2022 at the University of Miami, Florida.
This event is the premier gathering of higher education leaders driving responses to the climate crisis.
Strong sessions will help people across our networks – in higher education, finance, climate solutions, nonprofits, and government – face today’s intersecting crises and accomplish their climate, resilience, and justice goals.
Preference will be given to sessions that include and highlight the experiences and perspectives of people directly affected by climate impacts and social inequity as well as traditionally underrepresented people, perspectives, and solutions. Preview the RFP here before submitting it.
This Request for Participation is open through Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
2021 Climate Action Pursuit: Request for Proposals
Submitting a proposal means you will get to contribute your expertise to the Pursuit. Strong sessions will help people across our networks – in higher education, finance, climate solutions, nonprofits, and government – face today’s intersecting crises and accomplish their climate, resilience, and justice goals.
How to Submit a Session Proposal
We recommend planning out your proposal first, prior to visiting the online proposal submission form. We have a pdf copy of what the submission form will look like to help you.
PDF COPY OF SUBMIT A SESSION PROPOSAL
Once you have planned out your proposal, you can enter it into the actual online proposal submission form to officially submit it! The form is a short set of questions to lay out the concept for your session – if accepted, we will provide a session planning template to you, to fully develop the session along with relevant speakers/facilitators.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL HERE
See below for FAQ’s about the Climate Action Pursuit program and session proposals, and please reach out to Michele at Second Nature with any questions.
What will the Climate Action Pursuit agenda look like?
What kinds of sessions will be offered?
We anticipate offering 6 types of sessions:
What makes a good session?
A strong session will meet the following key criteria:
What are the next steps if my session is selected?
Session organizers will work with the Second Nature and IEN teams to develop a final session plan based on session planning templates, invite and confirm diverse and engaging speakers/facilitators, and participate in a session prep call. Session organizers are expected to register for the full Climate Action Pursuit, and will receive a 25% discount code for registration.
The failure of many entities to respond effectively to a deadly pandemic, coming at a time when society is already reeling from intensifying climate-related disasters, ongoing systemic racism and rising authoritarianism, has resulted in profound apprehension about the future. With a theme of “The future is …”, this year’s Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education reflects the uncertainty about the future that many feel and invites participants to recommit themselves to the urgent work of building a future that is sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We seek to highlight inspiring examples of higher education leadership that empower participants to envision and create such a future. Ultimately, the future is ours to make. Are you committed to leveraging the power of higher education to forge a brighter future? Join us at GSCHE!
GCSHE will convene a diverse group of attendees including faculty, students, sustainability staff, administrators, business partners, nonprofit representatives, government officials and community members to examine:
Submission Deadline: All manuscripts should be submitted for consideration by December 31, 2021.
The global environmental crisis is intertwined with the crisis of social and economic inequality. From coal plants to palm oil plantations, economic activities that threaten the planet are concentrated in communities with less power and wealth. “You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones,” writes Hop Hopkins, “and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people.”1
To counter the inequality that has made the destruction possible, and to protect nature, we need deep changes in our systems for governing the economy and the environment. But worldwide, the people facing environmental harm have almost no role in either the creation or the functioning of those systems. Environmental advocacy, meanwhile, is often dominated by elites and focused on highly technical channels like litigation.
This special issue will focus on how communities are using law and organizing to reimagine environmental governance from the bottom up. We will explore the concrete strategies communities use to assert or defend their rights to a clean and healthy environment, how to translate struggles against pollution in particular communities into improvements in laws and systems at the local, national, and international level, and how to overcome the grave threats that impede environmental injustice, including corruption and retaliation.
We are especially interested in papers by activists and advocates who can reflect on the struggles they have been a part of as well as the broader context. We aim for the issue to offer voices from many of the diverse contexts in which the movement for environmental justice is alive: from forests and grazing lands to mega-cities and everything in between, and from countries in both hemispheres, representing the entire economic spectrum.
All manuscripts should be submitted online by December 31, 2021. All submissions will be subject to a rigorous peer review. We encourage submissions of original research articles, policy briefs, impact papers, community voice submissions, legal analyses, and commentaries.
Suggested topics include, among others:
Visit Environmental Justice to learn more, read past issues, and view author submission guidelines.
Queries to the editor to propose a topic prior to submission are encouraged. Please contact Erin Kitchell to initiate your query or for any further details.