Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Care-full Climate Communications Webinar

February 7 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm UTC+2

The World Resource Forum 2023, taking place in Geneva, will propose an engaging and interactive programme to dive into some of the key topics around sustainable resource use, across the three conference tracks of sufficiencyvalue chains and digitalisation.

During the 3-days event, Hot or Cool Institute will join the panel debate titled “Sufficiency: from a consumer to a sufficient society”

The concept of sufficiency has been receiving renewed attention as an effective, if not indispensable, climate change mitigation strategy. However, it still remains a misunderstood and marginal concept, especially in policy and business environments. Can sufficiency become a powerful driver for innovative and equitable ways to deliver wellbeing for all, within planetary boundaries?

  • What is sufficiency and what potential does it hold for a sustainable and fair use of natural resources?
  • What kind of innovation can sufficiency principles give rise to, looking at policy, business and practice?
  • What sufficiency policies can be applied in key sectors, as energy, built environment and urban planning?
  • What does sufficiency mean for businesses and how can it be applied to corporate and sustainability strategy?

When: Tuesday, September 5th, from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM.

Where: in Geneva or online – Register today here!

Speakers

 

Details

Date:
September 5, 2023
Time:
9:00 am - 10:30 am UTC+2
Event Categories:
,
Website:
https://wrf2023.org/tickets/

Venue

Online

Organizer

World Resource Forum

From the 30th of May until the 2nd of June, the World Circular Economy Forum 2023 will gather forward-looking thinkers and doers and present the game-changers in the circular economy.

The Hot or Cool Institute will join the Consumers in a circular economy session with its Programme Lead, Luca Coscieme.

During the event, experts will (i)  explore how to track global environmental impacts caused by European consumption and help European policy making, (ii) helps us understand how consumer behaviour can influence circular global value chains and (iii) illustrates examples where circular material sourcing can improve the environmental performance of a company.

 

When: MAY 30, 2023 AT 13:30-14:45 EEST (UTC+3)

Register here to attend the online session

 

Speakers

  • Luca Coscieme, Senior Researcher at Hot or Cool Institute
  • Ioannis Bakas, Circular Economy Monitoring Expert at European Environment Agency

 

 

Details

Date:
May 30, 2023
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm UTC+2
Event Category:
Website:
https://wcef2023.com/sessions/consumers-in-a-circular-economy/

Organizers

Nordic Innovation
Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

Venue

Helsinki
Finland + Google Map

When: 23 November 2022, 14:00 to 15:30 CET

Registration: https://bit.ly/JoinShiftingFashion

In less than a decade, Black Friday has become a global event, incentivizing overconsumption and impacting the environment. But we also see a growing movement to boycott Black Friday, with numerous brands refusing to participate in the discounts. The main question is, ‘How can consumer passion for a good fashion deal be harnessed for a sustainable future?’ This event will highlight that consumption change is where the most significant need and opportunity for sustainability lies. It will showcase speakers from the forces that influence consumption and shape aspirations, underscoring areas for hope and defining where we should focus our efforts.

The event will explore: 

  • What is driving the increase in unsustainable consumption of textiles?
  • What are the evidence-based priority fashion solutions for the planet to address overconsumption?
  • What lighthouse actions are underway and can be upscaled to achieve sustainable consumption?
  • How can we reimagine new, aspirational visions for a (sustainable) fashion future and communicate those?

 

For whom? 

This event is for all actors involved in the textile value chain; policymakers, the private sector (including SMEs), civil society, technical organisations, and interested individuals. The webinar is of relevance to all those communicating on sustainable fashion with consumer audiences. This includes agencies, fashion and news media, image-makers, digital platforms, influencers and educators, from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to multinationals worldwide.

 

Why is fashion critical to a sustainable future?

The textile and fashion industries are globally significant, providing economic growth, employment, revenues, and products essential to human welfare. Yet fashion is also central to human aspirations; what brands share influences what and how much we consume. The world is producing and consuming more textiles than ever, and the low reuse and recycling rates also mean more waste. The shift to circular business models is critical in delivering sustainability for the industry and requires global approaches ensuring a just transition with entirely new visions and radically different ways of doing business.

 

UNEP’s strategy for the fashion sector and textile value chain

UNEP’s strategy outlines the imperative for the fashion sector and the broader textile value chain to become “radically and rapidly transformed to become circular, including reducing consumption and production impacts whilst increasing the utility gained from each product.” UNEP’s upcoming sustainable fashion playbook highlights the role of consumer-facing storytellers and the power of shifting the narrative to strengthen demand for a positive fashion future. It focuses on leading with science, changing behaviours and practices, reimagining values and driving advocacy. This event will bring these strategies to life.

 

 

Organisers:

logos

 

Agenda 

14:00 Opening statements

  • Moderator: Rachel Arthur, Advocacy Lead Sustainable Fashion, UNEP
  • Opening statement:  Adriana Zacarias, Head of Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs), and Deputy Head of the 10YFP Secretariat, UNEP.

14:15 Lead with science

  • Luca Coscieme, lead researcher, Hot or Cool Institute (Hot or Cool will release the report “Unfit, Unfair, and Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair consumption Space”, that links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change to keep with the 1.5-degree aspirational target of the Paris Agreement)

 

14:20 Panel discussion

  • Change behaviours and practices
    • Lucy Shea, CEO, Futerra
    • Jalal Moghraby, Instructor at the School of Architecture and Design, Lebanese American University
  • Reimagine values
    • Luz Lancheros, Portal Nueva Mujer- Metro World News, Fashion Editor Latin America
  • Drive advocacy
    • Alec Leach, author of ‘The World Is on Fire, But We’re Still Buying Shoes’

15:00 Questions and Answers session

 

15:25 Closing remarks: Elisa Tonda, Chief Resources and Markets Branch, UNEP (TBC)

Details

Date:
November 23, 2022
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm UTC+2
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.unep.org/events/online-event/shifting-fashion-narrative-rethinking-aspiration-world-overconsumption

Venue

Online

Organizer

Hot or Cool
View Organizer Website

 

Play Video

 

Join authors Hot or Cool Institute and an exciting lineup of expert speakers for the online launch of the report: Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: resizing fashion for a fair consumption space.

Register here

 

Current fashion trends in consumption, and in particular fast fashion, cannot be maintained if we aim to achieve a fair and just transition to climate neutrality. Mounting scientific evidence now clearly reveals the vast extent of negative environmental and social impacts of fashion consumption, as well as the different responsibility of consumers in high- and low-income countries and groups.

The report contributes to filling the knowledge gap arising from most prevailing climate scenarios on fashion that underplay the potential contributions of lifestyle changes to climate change mitigation and instead focus entirely or mainly on developing new technologies and on changes in production.

Furthermore, the report assesses and exposes misconceptions in the climate impacts of practices often regarded as effective solutions for reducing the carbon footprint of fashion. Analysis of practices such as clothing donations and second-hand exports, reveal environmental impacts not often considered but that potentially shift their net environmental benefits to negative.

 

The report will be available to download on the 25th November.

Speakers

  • Lewis Akenji, Director at Hot or Cool Institute
  • Luca Coscieme, Senior Researcher at Hot or Cool Institute
  • Dilys Williams, Director at Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability
  • Lars Fogh Mortensen, Consumption, Products and Plastics Expert at European Environment Agency
  • Kirsi NiinimakiAssociate Professor in Design at Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture
  • Ruth MacGilp, Communications Manager at Fashion Revolution

 

 

Details

Date:
November 24, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm UTC+2
Event Category:
Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lMAhoGwDSMSi6becAPoG0A

Organizers

Hot or Cool
Rapid Transition Alliance

Venue

Online

Documentaries are a powerful means to inspire people and raise awareness of human rights violations.

The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin (HRFFB) is a hybrid on- & offline festival at the heart of the German capital, taking place from 13 – 23 October, 2022. For 10 days, the festival focuses on stories from all parts of the world that vividly address and reflect on human action, the socio-political status quo and fundamental issues such as democracy, justice, freedom and environmental protection. Through discussions and Q&As with filmmakers, activists and experts, the festival creates a platform to gain new perspectives on our world.

 

Hot or Cool is part of the 2022 edition, through participations in 1 workshop and 3 expert panels, namely at:

 

14 OCT – CLIMATE STORYTELLING Workshop

3.30pm–5.30pm // Climate and Science Communication

Since the 1970s, we have known that climate change is real, and researchers have been making recommendations for action since then too. But somehow politics and the general public have turned a blind eye to the issue for far too long. This workshop will offer researchers the basic tools to get them heard and reach critical audiences.

 

15 OCT – Above Water – Film talk and Q&A 

Aissa Maiga’s Above Water (Marcher sur l’Eau) 18:00 | Screening at Passage Kino Berlin

Film: Every day, twelve-year-old Houlaye walks many kilometers – not to school, but to fetch
water. She lives in the small village of Tatis in northern Niger and is one of about 2.2 billion
people worldwide without direct access to drinking water. She often has to stop her little
brothers from using the precious water to wash. And at drought time, Houlaye is completely
on her own: many adults leave their villages and families behind in search of new resources,
and Houlaye’s parents are among them. But all it would take is a well to provide access to
water and a better life for everyone, because two hundred meters below the dry ground,
there is a spring of unimaginable dimensions.

Speakers:
Ben Unterkofler (Founder share)
Diogo Silva (Hot or Cool Institute)
Host: Clara-Sophie Cantagrel (Manager Projects Afrika)

Film talk
We will talk about the effects of the climate change on access to drinking water and the risks
for people not having access to it. What options do we have in the Global North and what
impact does our consume?

 

17 OCT – DON’T STARVE OUR FUTURE Forum

3:50 pm – 5:00pm // Social Tipping Points for Climate Justice: How Can the Global North Work With the Global South?

With increasing emissions, our planet is moving closer and closer to catastrophic tipping points that are threatening to throw the climate off balance. But around the world, people are fighting to avert this catastrophe, reaching positive tipping points instead – tipping points that will allow all people to live on a healthy planet without hunger. Using examples of climate action, grassroots activism and the application of Indigenous knowledge, we will discuss what the climate movement and aid organisations in the Global North can learn from climate activism in the Global South – and vice versa. We are looking for fresh, unconventional alliances to jointly pave the way out of climate-related hunger. Join us and become part of the movement!

Keynote: Dr. Kira Vinke (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Panellists:

  • Dr. Lewis Akenji (Moderation, Hot or Cool Institute)
  • Lisa Göldner (Greenpeace Germany)
  • Constance Okollet (Osukuru United Women’s Network)
  • Mitzi Jonelle Tan (Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines & Fridays for Future Philippines)

 

19 OCT – OPEN SOCIETIES Forum

3:50 pm – 5:00pm // The Hidden Power of Data Lies in Storytelling

Are we as a society still able to talk to each other without getting loud and insulting or feeling hurt just because someone doesn’t share our point of view? How can we find more common ground? We would like to initiate an intensive discussion on how to combat disinformation and misinformation, what can be done to counter propaganda and how data and facts can be communicated in such a way that they cannot be misinterpreted or misused.

  • Tin Fischer (Author, Journalist)
  • Andreas von Bubnoff (Freelance science journalist, professor of science communication, PhD in developmental biology)
  • Franziska Mager (Senior Researcher – Hot or Cool Institute)
  • Host: Alexandra Wolf (Project management, concept & development – re:publica)

Details

Start:
October 13, 2022
End:
October 23, 2022
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, , , , , , , ,
Website:
https://www.humanrightsfilmfestivalberlin.de/en

Organizer

Aktion gegen den Hunger
View Organizer Website

Venue

Berlin

How the digital societal transformation is related to the challenges of social justice and ecological sustainability is still far too little discussed. One thing is clear: the way in which new technologies are designed and used has a major impact on a large number of social and ecological challenges of our time!

How and by whom must digital technologies be designed so that they contribute to a democratically led, far-reaching transformation? Which social and ecological goals should be pursued in particular? Which forms of digital technologies urgently need to be redesigned because they perpetuate the unsustainable status quo of intersectional discrimination, social polarization and the destruction of our livelihoods? And how do they have to be designed and used to tackle the climate crisis?

Our Managing Director Lewis Akenji will answer these and more questions during the opening session at @ Bits & Bäume, a conference for transformation digitalization and sustainability, hosted by the Technische Universität Berlin.

The session will start with keynotes by Elisa Lindinger and Lewis Akenji.  Afterwards, the Bits & Baeume board, represented by the environment and development organisation Germanwatch and the tech organisation Open Knowledge Foundation e. V., will discuss with Dr Christiane Rohleder, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and Dr Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, what needs to be done now politically to make sustainable digitalisation a reality.

Tickets are still available, grab yours here!
https://lnkd.in/ekwqWTA9

 

Details

Date:
September 30, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm UTC+2

Venue

Berlin

Equitably and quickly distributing the world’s limited and fast-shrinking global carbon budget is one of the critical challenges of our time. This question is addressed by the Hot or Cool Institute’s Towards a Fair Consumption Space for All report in which CREDS researchers participated.

Hosted by CREDS, this webinar features its researchers and other authors of the report speaking about options that may once have seemed radical but may now be the only alternative to climate catastrophe.

  • Dr Magnus Bengtsson will introduce the work of the Hot or Cool Institute, its commitment to 1.5°C and give an overview of the report.
  • Prof Yael Parag will talk about Personal Carbon Allowances and whether the time has come for rationing carbon.
  • Dr Yamina Saheb will discuss sufficiency as a policy response, asking ‘how much is enough’.
  • Dr Stuart Capstick will talkabout carbon rationing and the psychology of consumption.

The event will conclude with a live Q&A session with the speakers.

Register here and save the date. We look forward seeing you there!

Details

Date:
September 7, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm UTC+2

On the 28th of June 2022, Hot or Cool Institute, together with Policy Lead, Magnus Bengtsson, joined the webinar #3 Education for post-carbon green economies, the third event of the new series of monthly conversations on climate change education for social transformation.

 UNESCO-UNFCCC’s Webinar Series consists of 8 webinars for this season, one on the last Tuesday of every month from April to November, on the road to COP27 to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 7 to 18 November 2022.

This event delved into what needs to be integrated into educational policies and curricula to help accelerate the transition to alternative sustainable economic models and promote individual sustainable lifestyles.
The session addressed the following questions:
• What is the role of climate change education to promote the transition towards a postcarbon green economy?
• How can climate change education foster a 1.5-degree lifestyle?

Have you missed it? You can now watch the webinar here

Speakers

Moderator -Grace Lung, Senior Manager of Partnership Programme, WorldSkills International 

Panelists

  • Ms Ayisha Siddiqa, Co-founder of Polluters out and Fossil Free University, Pakistan
  • Ms Alejandra Kopaitic Aguirre, Climate Activist and co-founder of @vayaconsumismo, Chile
  • Mr Magnus Bengtsson, Policy Lead, Hot or Cool Institute
  • Ms Pauline Karigambe, Director Vocational Training and Skills Development, Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Zimbabwe

Details

Date:
June 28, 2022
Time:
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm UTC+2

Stay in the loop

Don’t miss out on news from the Hot or Cool Institute. Subscribe to receive updates on research, projects, and more.

English

Português

日本語

ไทย