Clubhouse Event:
📅 23 June, Wednesday
⏰ 5:30 PM-6:30 PM CEST | 9:00 PM-10:00 PM IST
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers
Join our four-part dialogue series with world leaders: "Virtual Coffee with Changemakers", short sessions where world leaders share their visions and ideas on how we can all become changemakers. All course participants are invited to join the live event series. This is an opportunity for you to engage with world leaders and changemakers. This events page will be updated weekly to include the latest events.
Upcoming Events:
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Arabic Edition
Thursday 26 May, 15.00-15.45 CAT (Khartoum), 15.00-15.45 CEST (Geneva)
This Virtual Coffee with Changemakers event will be dedicated to celebrating the role of ecosystems in reducing the impacts of hazards and climate change across the Arab region. It will be an opportunity to engage on the topic of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and their relevancy to the regions' environment and climate change issues. The live event will be in Arabic.
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Indonesia Edition
Thursday 06 May, 14:00-14:45 WIB (Jakarta), 10:00-10:45 EAT (Nairobi), 09:00-10:45 CEST (Geneva)
This Virtual Coffee with Changemakers event is dedicated to celebrating the role of ecosystems in reducing the impacts of hazards and climate change in Indonesia, one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. We will learn about achievements in promoting Nature-based Solutions for building climate resilience in Indonesia and challenges on the horizon by two female changemakers. The live event will be in Indonesian.
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Latin America Edition
Friday, March 26, 2021 : 8.00-8.45 CST (CIUDAD DE MÉXICO), 9.00-9.45 GMT-5 (BOGOTÁ), 15.00-15.45 CET (GINEBRA)
Join us for our next 'Virtual Coffee with Changemakers', an exclusive dialogue with Latin American leaders in discussing the role of promoting Nature-based Solutions for disaster and climate resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The live event will be in Spanish.
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Celebrating Women's Achievements in Promoting Nature-based Solutions
Friday, March 12, 2021 : 9:00-9:45 GMT-5 (NE YORK) / 15:00-15:45 GMT +1 (GENEVA) / 17:00-17:45 GMT +3 (NAIROBI)W
In commemoration of International Women's Day, this Virtual Coffee with Changemakers event is dedicated to celebrating the role of women as environmental stewards and actors of change. As the COVID-19 pandemic has tragically demonstrated, healthy Nature is needed for healthy people and provides us with important buffers against the impacts of climate risks. We will learn about achievements in promoting Nature-based Solutions for building climate resilience in Africa by two female environmental leaders.
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Private Sector Insights
Friday, February 26, 2021 : 10:30 - 11:15 (EST) / 16:30 - 17:15 (CET)
We are honored to welcome Hakan Lucius and Urs Dieterich as our special guests for this "Virtual Coffee" session. Hakan Lucius is the Head of Corporate Responsibility at the European Investment Bank, the European Union’s bank, covering the sustainability, non-financial reporting and stakeholder engagement dimensions of the institution. Urs Dieterich is the Land Use Fund Manager of South Pole, designing the Landscape Resilience Fund, a not-for-profit venture debt fund to help scale climate-resilient land use in developing countries. The event will be moderated by Nathalie Doswald, United Nations Environment Programme.
Past Events & Recordings:
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Jayathma Wickramanayake, Annisa Triyanti, & Mikhail Fernandes
Friday, February 12, 2021 : 12.30-13:15 EST / 18.30-19.15 CET
We are honored to welcome Jayathma Wickramanayake as our special guest for this second "Virtual Coffee" session. Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake is the youngest senior official in the UN and the first woman to hold the position of UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. The event will also feature Dr. Annisa Triyanti, Postdoctoral researcher in water and climate governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. The event will be moderated by Mikhail Fernandes, United Nations Environment Programme.
Virtual Coffee with Changemakers - Jeffrey Sachs, Gary Lewis, & Nidhi Nagabhatla :
We were honored to welcome Professor Jeffrey Sachs as our special guest for this first “Virtual Coffee” session. Professor Sachs is the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which houses the SDG Academy MOOC platform where our course is being hosted.
