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GCU hosts the World Health
Organisation’s Global
Conference on Health and
Climate Change
Health professionals and climate
experts from around the world,
including Julia Gillard, former Prime
Minister of Australia and Chair of
Wellcome Trust, and Dr Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-
General of the World Health
Organization, called for urgent action to
tackle the growing climate-related
health crisis, during the Global
Conference on Health and Climate
Change at GCU.
Climate change already adversely
impacts the lives and health of billions
of people, and will increasingly do so
over the next decades. Affecting the
most basic health requirements
including clean air, safe water, sufficient
food and adequate shelter, it also poses
new challenges to the control of
infectious diseases, and gradually
increases the pressure on the natural,
economic and social systems that
sustain health.
Addressing Sustainable Goals in
the Fashion Industry through
Education and Employability
As fashion embraces a sustainable
future, GCU, together with our partners
on our EU-funded Sustainability Fashion
Employability Skills (SFES) project, held
an online event to discuss what role can
education and employment play in the
industry's revolution.
Led by GCU, the project involves
Universidad Villanueva, in Madrid,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,
Edhec Business School, in France, and
Universidade da Madeira, in Portugal,
and has Harris Tweed Hebrides and
Madrid-based retail group Tendam as
industry partners.
My Fashion Path: Re-Clothing
the Future Conference
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce,
Advanced Clothing Solutions and GCU
partnered on a sustainable fashion
conference held on the final day of
COP26. The Re-Clothing the Future
Conference was hosted by awardwinning
Scottish stand-up comedienne
Anna Devitt, and gathered students
and young people, sustainable fashion
businesses and policymakers together
to empower young people to shape the
future of the fashion industry.
Showcasing Scotland’s sustainable
fashion industry and highlighting the
career opportunities within the fashion
and manufacturing industries.
My Fashion Path Conference at GCU.
GCU Common Good Podcast |
The COP26 Series
Our special GCU COP26 Podcast Series
looked at how the GCU community and
beyond is helping to tackle the climate
emergency.
The four-part series featured our
Chancellor Dr Annie Lennox OBE,
Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor
Pamela Gillies CBE FRSE, Nobel
Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus,
social activist Dr Satish Kumar, the Met
Office’s Penny Endersby and Professor
Tahseen Jafry from our Centre for
Climate Justice.
Key speakers at the World Health Organisation Conference in front of a giant
‘pollution pod’ that mimics the air quality of the future (2040).
Penny Endersby, Chief Executive of
the Met Office.