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Delighted to announce a new project between Nigeria Youth SDGs Network (NGYouthSDGs) and Zeroverse! 🎉 Together, we have been selected for in-kind support by the The Carbon Literacy Project to deliver and learn about the impact of carbon literacy training with young researchers, professionals, and post-grads in Nigeria. Next year, we will train two cohorts of professionals and post-graduate students working in research and higher education institutions in Nigeria. We aim to learn about: 💡 the impact of the training on equipping, inspiring, and empowering people to engage in positive change 🧪 what climate actions people working in the research and higher education in Nigeria devise for their context 🔧 whether carbon literacy training is an approach that can add value to NGYouthSDG's mission to foster meaningful youth engagement in policy and programmes that will enable youth in Nigeria to lead and thrive. Follow Nigeria Youth SDGs Network and Zeroverse for updates on how to apply. Excited about this collaboration! 🙏 Thank you to Opeyemi Ogundeji, Oluwabukunmi OYINLOYE-OBADEYI, and Joshua Alade for your partnership and thank you to The Carbon Literacy Project for your support! #ClimateVoicesNG #research #highereducation

👏 🙌 Congratulations to everyone behind the scenes that is working hard on UCD's sustainability effort! Delighted that our Big Zero #carbonliteracy and climate action programme made a positive contribution 💚

We just celebrated 32 undergraduate students who earned their carbon literacy certificate! 💫 Congratulations to everyone! All the students are studying at University College Dublin in Ireland and took the Big Zero co-curricular programme on climate action. The feedback from students about Big Zero was amazing - 💚 It gave them a sense of agency to make positive change. 💚 It was empowering and positive. 💚 Our actions have positive ripple effects and our voices advocating change matter. 💚 They feel connected with peers and empathy for people experiencing different kinds of climate impacts around the world. They are international students from more than 20 different countries around the world. They shared how climate action is taking shape in their home countries and experienced how their new home of Ireland is taking positive action too. The showstopper in the Big Zero programme is the field trip! Everyone had an inspiring experience at Hometree, Common Knowledge and Airfield Estate, connecting them to the natural beauty of Ireland in a unique way. Kudos to the UCD Global team for organising today's event to celebrate the journey and everyone's achievements. If you're inspired to know more -  Big Zero is an accredited carbon literacy training programme for undergraduate college students specially designed to encourage a positive 'can do' mindset. Zeroverse created it together with Big Pond Education and you can partner with us to deliver it to your students. Check out our website https://www.big-zero.org/ University College Dublin, UCD Global, Hometree, Airfield Estate, Common Knowledge, Big Pond Education, CANIE: Climate Action Network for International Educators, The Carbon Literacy Project #BigZeroUCD #climateaction  #InternationalEducation #carbonliteracy

❄️ Does your lab have refrigerators, freezers, or cold rooms? Participate in the annual International Freezer Challenge! It’s fun and free. You compete to improve sample storage, reduce costs, waste less energy, and save #carbonemissions. 💶 💷 💵 Wasting less energy is one way your lab can reduce carbon emissions and meet funder requirements for environmentally sustainable research practices. SAVE THE DATE 01 January 2025. Any lab can participate in the International Freezer Challenge. Register anytime at freezerchallenge.org between January and June, the earlier the better. - It’s helpful to know what cold storage you have in your lab before you start. - You decide what action to take under 6 themes: A) Preventative Maintenance B) Materials Management C) Temperature Tuning D) Retirements and Upgrades E) Sharing and Room Temperature Sample Storage F) Community engagement - All the scoresheets are assessed and My Green Lab will announce the winners and host a virtual awards ceremony. The challenge is organised by My Green Lab and I2SL: International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories. 🥳 Congratulations to all this year's winners!

📣 Research funders are moving on climate action. 📌 Wellcome and Cancer Research UK have launched new environmental sustainability requirements for grant applicants. 📌 Multiple research funders across Europe have endorsed the Heidelberg Agreement where funders actively promote and incentivise low carbon and more sustainable research practices. 📌 More than 25 organisations in the UK support a new concordat to reduce the environmental impacts of carrying out research. 🤔 How you will use the most sustainable approach for your research? 🤔 How will you purchase equipment and consumables that have a the lowest environmental impact? 🤔 How will you engage all members of your team? 🤔 Does your organisation have a net zero goal and implementation plan? If you need help navigating this evolving sustainable research landscape, reach out to chat about how Zeroverse can help you and your team. Artwork by Michela Esposito @_runningrabbit for The Greats

Get together with all sorts of interesting people working in all kinds of roles in research and higher education with one thing in common…a drive to do something positive for the planet in their professional lives. ✅ We’ll equip you with a kit bag of tools to take action.  ✅ We’ll inspire you with true stories of people like you making change happen.  ✅ We’ll support you to develop your own climate-positive action plan. All kinds of people in #research and #highereducation have taken our training: Directors, Technicians, Personal Assistants, Postdocs, Communications Officers, Procurement Managers, Biobank Managers, PhD students, Grant Managers, Sustainability Leads, Community Outreach Officers, and many more… 🙌 Everyone is welcome! Click here to join Zeroverse’s special 'Carbon Literacy Action Day' training taking place during the COP climate negotiations https://lnkd.in/gfjH5ym8 👉 Training starts November 5th, 2024 and takes place over four 2 hour sessions. Each person can earn their certificate of ‘Carbon Literacy’. The training is accredited by The Carbon Literacy Project. 🙏 Thank you Sapna Sadarangani, Jacopo Boni, Alejandra Barahona (She/Her/Hers), GEORGE IMBUSI, and Hope Dillarstone for your generous testimonials!

Two global green lab certification programmes exist. Both of them are tried and tested and ready for you to use in your own lab setting. But which is best for your lab? My Green Lab and LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) both: ✅ Provide a framework for action  ✅ Allow you choose what is relevant for your setting ✅ Include a verification process  ✅ Allow you to track progress and estimate Kwh and carbon savings ✅ Award labs with tiered certificates Which type of institutions are they designed for? 📌 The LEAF programme is open for academic institutions to join. 📌 My Green Lab is open for academic, government, and private sector labs to join. 📌 Both programmes have their roots in wet labs and offer excellent guidance on saving energy, water, reducing waste as well as some guidance related to greener travel and computing. What are the fees to join? 💷 One academic institution can join LEAF for one year, the cost is 1,100 - 2,600 GBP and any number of labs, departments, divisions can participate.  💵 My Green Lab pricing is calculated per lab. For one lab the price is 500 USD, 2 labs costs 900 USD and so on. 🔊 An excellent new paper by Bianca Schell and Nico Bruns out in Sustainability #RSCSustainability compares the two programmes in practice in labs across Germany. They find that: 💡 Both programmes are primarily designed for biology, life science and chemistry labs but they are being used in engineering, material sciences, and clinical labs. 💡Both programmes encourage more sustainable work in labs, but neither has an “external validation of the certifications, such as an external audit" 💡Although LEAF was designed in the UK and Ireland, users can "enter local guidance to criteria, making it adaptable to national or local frameworks. " 💡My Green Lab requires that at least 50% of your lab participate in the evaluation. This is great for engagement and culture change. This brilliant paper can help you decide which one is best suited to your institution. Link to the full text here https://lnkd.in/gx3E55QQ

❓How is your organisation making it easy for co-workers and students to get engaged in sustainability? A short and simple climate action e-learning is one way. 🙌 We're celebrating that more than 200 people from 25 countries have taken the Zeroverse climate action e-learning! ⏰ In 30 minutes it covers the 'why' and the 'how' of climate action. 📝 Each person decides their own climate action commitment. Here are some of the solutions so far! 🟢 switch to LED bulbs 🟢 separate waste 🟢 switch fleet from gasoline vehicles to bicycles and e-bicycles 🟢 compost 🟢 install renewable energy generation 🟢 green commuting programme 🟢 scale-up tree planting 🟢 reduce single-use items 🟢 increase non-meat and non-dairy options 🛒 Try our short and sweet e-learning to engage your own co-workers and students in climate action where you are https://lnkd.in/gV47pRKc! Free access code to celebrate our 200 people milestone 200_LINKEDIN Artwork by Fartboil for ArtistsForClimate.org. E-learning utilised for climate action engagement by Nigeria Youth SDGs Network, CANIE: Climate Action Network for International Educators members UCD Global and Big Pond Education as part of the #BigZero Carbon Literacy Programme. It was developed in collaboration with The Carbon Literacy Project

🤔Can research institutions develop solutions to climate change as well as reduce their own carbon footprint? 🙄🥼⚗️Can we reduce emissions from our own sector? 💡 It was wonderful to hear back from Dr Krish Saha, Associate Professor in Circular Economy, who participated in the Zeroverse Carbon Literacy training and said that he "left the course inspired to make even greater personal and professional changes". “With my background in sustainability and the circular economy, I expected to expand on what I already knew, but Kate's Carbon Literacy training offered much more. She guided me to think beyond my current practices and challenged me to adopt new, actionable strategies to reduce my carbon footprint. Kate's persuasive approach and in-depth knowledge provided fresh perspectives that have motivated me to further integrate sustainability into my teaching and research. The most impressive element of the training was her ability to connect with participants at different levels of understanding. I left the course inspired to make even greater personal and professional changes.” 🙏 Thank you Krish for your generous testimonial and best of luck with your ambitious plans for action! 👉 If you'd like to see more climate action in your own organisation, feel free to get in touch about group training or check out future training dates here https://lnkd.in/g-YDQbYg Zeroverse training is accredited by The Carbon Literacy Project. #CarbonLiteracy #ClimateAction 

🙌 In today’s #BigZero training session: good climate news! The students in the #BigZeroUCD group are from 20 countries around the world. In today’s session each international student shared a good news climate story from their home country. ❓ Guess what… We are taking steps in the right direction! ✔ China is financing EV charging infrastructure in remote areas ✔ In Italy, greener building materials get tax breaks ✔ Communities are mobilising in India to collect trash ✔ Germany is closing coal-fired power stations  ✔ South Africa revoked Shell’s oil and gas exploration license ✔ Public transport is subsided in Germany and Austria ✔ In the USA, food waste is being turned into fuels At this stage in the BigZero training, we have examined the causes of climate change and shared our own experiences of its impacts. It’s hard to face these realities. The challenge for each of us is to poses this knowledge and take active steps forward towards something better. 💡 Today’s session was all about inspiring each other so that we can move in the right direction. Thanks to Caroline Mangan for spearheading #BigZeroUCD, to Katherine Mulfaul, Catherine Convery, Enda Carroll and UCD Global for this positive collaboration! ➡ Check out https://www.big-zero.org/ if you’d like to offer this accredited #CarbonLiteracy and #climateaction training programme to your students. The Carbon Literacy Project, Positive News, Big Pond Education